A cup of tea would restore my normality.
- Douglas Adams
So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back
to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest
person to him, anyway. "And how are you this afternoon?"
he asked.
Lady Bridgerton gave him a very small smile as she
handed him his cup of tea. "Smart man," she murmured.
"It's self-preservation, really," he said noncommittally.
"Don't say that. They wouldn't hurt you."
"No, but I'm sure to be injured in the cross fire.
- Julia Quinn
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
I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.
- Mario Batali
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.
- Anthony Bourdain
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
I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.
- Gail Carriger
you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.
- Nadine Gordimer
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
But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
- Cindy Crawford
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
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
- Katherine Dunn
I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.
- Maria Sharapova
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
I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
- Dan Farmer
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
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
- Tom Stoppard
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
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
- Christian Lacroix
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
She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
- Colum Mccann
I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?
- Frank Mccourt
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
Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.
- Guy Pearce
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 drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had something that made it easier to continue in a world that sometimes, just sometimes, was not as we might wish it to be.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last cup of tea. The reader may be advised to do so likewise.
- Emily C A Snyder
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 love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.
- Mark Webber
I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.
- Edith Wharton
The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.
- P G Wodehouse
- Douglas Adams
So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back
to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest
person to him, anyway. "And how are you this afternoon?"
he asked.
Lady Bridgerton gave him a very small smile as she
handed him his cup of tea. "Smart man," she murmured.
"It's self-preservation, really," he said noncommittally.
"Don't say that. They wouldn't hurt you."
"No, but I'm sure to be injured in the cross fire.
- Julia Quinn
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
I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.
- Mario Batali
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.
- Anthony Bourdain
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
I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.
- Gail Carriger
you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.
- Nadine Gordimer
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
But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
- Cindy Crawford
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
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
- Katherine Dunn
I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.
- Maria Sharapova
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
I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
- Dan Farmer
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
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
- Tom Stoppard
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
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
- Christian Lacroix
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
She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
- Colum Mccann
I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?
- Frank Mccourt
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
Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.
- Guy Pearce
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 drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had something that made it easier to continue in a world that sometimes, just sometimes, was not as we might wish it to be.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last cup of tea. The reader may be advised to do so likewise.
- Emily C A Snyder
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 love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.
- Mark Webber
I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.
- Edith Wharton
The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.
- P G Wodehouse
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