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A Cup Of Tea Quotes

A cup of tea would restore my normality.
- Douglas Adams

Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed.
- Muriel Barbery

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
- Lewis Carroll

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
- Audrey Hepburn

Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux was there to provide chin scratches. Madame Lefoux provided.
- Gail Carriger

Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.
- Jonathan Coe

Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.
- Terry Pratchett

Yet it is true that there was an absent mindedness about her which sometimes made her clumsy; she was apt to think of poetry when she should have been thinking of taffeta; her walk was a little too much of a stride for a woman, perhaps, and her gestures, being abrupt, might endanger a cup of tea on occasion.
- Virginia Woolf

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
- Charles Dickens

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!
- Jerome K Jerome

Okay, this is the wisdom: First, time spent on reconnaissance is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on earth that cannot be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
- Jasper Fforde

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
- Jenny Frost

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
- Boy George

For me, once I've made a cup of tea I belong somehow. It's like I'm marking out my territory, and anyone attempting to come and make a cup of tea on my patch will be dealt with most severely, more likely than not with a counter attack into their territory and the seizure of their milk cartons and shortbread biscuits.
- Tony Hawks

The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
- Lafcadio Hearn

Yeah, he's nipping off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant.
- J K Rowling

Fred: Oh get out of the way Percy. Harry's in a hurry.
George: Yeah he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant.
- J K Rowling

I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.
- Steven Herrick

4 is the worst time to wake up, as anyone with the normal human sensitivities will tell you. Far too late to make a cup of tea or go back to sleep. Far too early to get up and do something constructive. There's nothing on television but arrogant evangelists and people selling acne solutions and motivational tapes. For me, base 12 philosophy aside, midnight is not the witching hour. 4:00 is.
- Toni Jordan

It's the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It's the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible... and he loves me anyway.
- Sophie Kinsella

He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
- Anne Lamott

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
- C S Lewis

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.
- Rick Mercer

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
- Ethel Merman

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.
- Lorrie Moore

Alice would give anything, anything at all, to be lying in bed with Nick, waiting for a cup of tea. Maybe he got sick of making her cups of tea? Was that it? Had she taken him for granted? Who did she think she was, some sort of princess, lying in bed waiting for cups of tea to be delivered.
- Liane Moriarty

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.
- Kathleen Thompson Norris

I was learning, even in my brief time in England, that a cup of tea almost always helped. I didn't know whether it was the caffeine, the warmth, or the simple fact of having someone else do something kind, but a soothing cup of tea in Harriet Dalrymple's cottage was fast becoming my lifeline to sanity.
- Beth Pattillo

No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.
- Allison Pearson

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

Find yourself a cup of tea,
the teapot is behind you.
Now tell me about
hundreds of things.
- Saki

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
- Alexander Mccall Smith

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.
- Catherine Helen Spence

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.
- Mark Strong

I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.
- Edith Wharton

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