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  • #1
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast
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    Dodie Smith
    “I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: butter, honey, millionaires, tea
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  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
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  • #4
    Douglas Adams
    “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

    [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
    ― Douglas Adams
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  • #5
    Sydney Smith
    “Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
    ― Sydney Smith, A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set
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  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humor, perspective, science
    5859 likes

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  • #8
    Samuel Beckett
    “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: life, planets, space-travel
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  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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  • #10
    “I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.”
    ― Lu T'ung
    tags: awesomeness, tea
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  • #11
    Gerald Durrell
    “Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.”
    ― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals
    tags: tea, teatime
    61 likes

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  • #12
    “A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.”
    ― Mary Lou Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
    tags: tea
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  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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  • #14
    Christine Feehan
    “Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.”
    ― Christine Feehan, Hidden Currents
    tags: tea
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  • #15
    William Ewart Gladstone
    “If you are cold, tea will warm you;
    if you are too heated, it will cool you;
    If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
    If you are excited, it will calm you.”
    ― William Ewart Gladstone
    tags: tea
    315 likes

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  • #16
    Rachel Hawkins
    “Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.”
    ― Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass
    tags: dad, demonglass, rachel-hawkins, sophie, tea
    384 likes

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  • #17
    Jasper Fforde
    “Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
    tags: bacon, hot-baths, humour, problem, reconnaissance, tea, time, wisdom
    271 likes

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  • #18
    “As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.”
    ― Aprilynne Pike, Illusions
    tags: armageddon, cold, tea
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  • #19
    Douglas Adams
    “Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

    "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: arthur-dent, humor, tea
    422 likes

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  • #20
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    “Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
    ― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
    tags: domesticity, prettiness, tea, victorian-society, women
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  • #21
    Gary Snyder
    “There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
    ― Gary Snyder
    tags: coffee, drink, gary, snyder, tea, there, those
    245 likes

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  • #22
    Henry James
    “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
    ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
    tags: tea
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  • #23
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
    tags: poetry, sentiment, tea
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  • #24
    D.T. Suzuki
    “Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
    ― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture
    tags: tea, transcendence, universe, zen
    211 likes

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  • #25
    Kakuzō Okakura
    “Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.”
    ― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
    tags: tea
    167 likes

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  • #26
    Samuel Johnson
    “Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?”
    ― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
    tags: generosity, jealousy, reckoning, small-mindedness, tea, wine
    59 likes

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  • #27
    “There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”
    ― Alan Clark
    tags: happiness, reading, tea
    63 likes

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  • #28
    Truman Capote
    “The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.”
    ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
    tags: character, personality
    89 likes



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