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Quotes About Tea

You're far too young for a governess,' mused Lizzie as she stirred cream into her tea. 'And the strain of behaving would probably kill you,' muttered Frank.
~ Julia Golding
Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, "Must get on with the tea.
~ Kate Atkinson
All those tiny ancient marine life forms falling to the ocean floor to come back to life one day as a Disney Fairies Tea Set.
~ Kate Atkinson
He brought her a cup of tea, the first and last resource of an English husband.
~ Kate Atkinson
The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.
~ Timothy Mo
Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea
~ Billy Bragg
An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.
~ Mason Cooley
All right. Normal rules apply." "Right." The man walked off, leaving us. "What are the normal rules?" I asked. "He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.
~ Maureen Johnson
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
~ Gary Oldman
I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.
~ Eric Morecambe
I am a creature of habit with my food and snacks. I make sure to get in all three meals and drink my Eboost every morning, and lots of hot tea keeps me going!
~ Kristen Taekman
Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?
~ Louise Rennison
I need a semblance of routine so little things, like having my morning cup of English breakfast tea and going to Pilates early before the world gets hectic, keeps me calm.
~ Louise Roe
I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.
~ Paul McCartney
...at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.
~ Arthur Gray
Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.
~ Alanis Morissette
Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.
~ George Harrison
When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.
~ Harold Monro
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
~ Virginia Woolf
Visitors come and go.Daily I read tea leaves for signsof the approaching century:a raven perched on a crossa sword piercing a cloud--A Victorian Life
~ Clara Blackwood, Forecast
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an infusion, which meant that it was vital for the water to be actually boiling when it came into contact with the leaves. He looked at me furiously... I had behaved like this many times before: taking Canute's stance in the path of the great surge of ill-brewed tepid tea that was inundating England.
~ Will Self