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Tea Thyme Quotes
Afternoon Tea should be provided; fresh supplies,
with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries,
cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
--Mrs. Beeton, The Book of Household Management
 The daintiness and yet elegance of a china teacup focuses
one to be gentle, to think warmly and to feel close.
--Carol and Malcolm Cohen
While there's tea, there's hope.
--Sir Arthur Pinero
I always fear that creation will expire before tea time.
--Rev. Sydney Smith
 Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups on my table.
--Tang Dynasty
Tea is wealth itself,
Because there is nothing that cannot be lost,
No problem that will not disappear,
No burden that will not float away,
Between the first sip and the last.
--The Minister of Leaves
Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
--Catherine Douzel
 Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea;
and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!
--Barry Pain, The Poet's at Tea
"I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically, "and asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know."
--Anne of Green Gables
 Tea, heav'ns delight, and natures truest wealth, that pleasing physic, and pledge of health, the statesman's counselor, the virgin's love, the muse's nectar, the drink of love.
--Peter Antoine Motteux,
A Poem Upon Tea, 1712
Come and share a pot of tea,
My home is warm and my friendship's free.
--Emilie Barnes
My hour for tea is half-past five,
and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
--Wilkie Collines, The Woman in White
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 Monroe
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