“The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night – a reverse waterfall – like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard.” Joe Dunthorne Submarine
Tea Quote 116
“Tea was the great arbiter of many things, and for Pastaddams, his morning cup meant the difference between expressing rational thought and succumbing to the ineptitude that occupied recesses of his dormant mind. Merely having the cup in his hand facilitated the flow of ideas, and upon tea, the great nourishment of the tailor’s life,…
Tea Quote 115
Tea is tea, nothing can compete my tea. Irfa Adam
Tea Quote 114
“ A cup of tea is all I need to keep working.” Lailah Gifty Akita
Tea Quote 113
“Oh, the English! They are always thinking of tea. They carry it by the kilogram, and they are so clumsy that they always pack it at the top.” E.M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread
Tea Quote 112
“I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I had told you. Because I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I really want is that you should all go to hell. That is what I want. I want…
Tea Quote 111
“There should be medals struck for men who produce tea at exactly the moment it’s needed.” Jodi Taylor A Trail Through Time
Tea Quote 110
“Because he was English and that’s what the English do under stress: they drink tea.” Cynthia Hand My Lady Jane
Tea Quote 109
“The cold seemed less relentless now. The small circle of white light from my bedside lamp and its hint of the dawn to come seemed to drive the worst of the chill away and the hot tea did the rest, as I lay and read further into the life of the young woman in the…
Tea Quote 108
“There’s a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His Majesty’s Government: Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes – or so the Vicar had remarked to Father.” Alan Bradley The Sweetness at the Bottom of…