Afternoon Tea Quotes

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  • 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.

    Girl   Nice   Home  
    "Self Talks to Tennis Star Maria Sharapova (She's got a sweet tooth!)". Interview with Bari Lieberman, www.self.com. August 30, 2011.
  • Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

    Tea   Mind   Body  
  • Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.

    Death   Tea   Afternoon  
    Song: A Passion Play, Album: A Passion Play
  • Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

    Ideas   Space   Flying  
  • Very few restaurants do five services a day - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail, theatre and dinner - and because of that we can offer something for everyone.

    Lunch   Tea   Theatre  
    Source: www.esquireme.com
  • Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

    Tea   Picnics   Beverages  
    Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”
  • My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

    Giving   Tea   Cups  
    Charles Dickens (2015). “Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy”, p.14, Booklassic
  • Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.

    Cake   Tea   Afternoon  
  • When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

    Running   Nice   Party  
    "General Patton's Address to the Troops". "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.
  • Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall. Pippin: But what about breakfast? Aragorn: You've already had it. Pippin: We've had one, yes. But what about second breakfast? [Aragorn stares at him, then walks off.] Merry: Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip. Pippin: What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he? Merry: I wouldn't count on it Pip.

  • Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

    Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
  • Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

    Funny   Morning   Lunch  
    "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, 1998.
  • You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

    Book   Reading   Long  
    "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".
  • Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

    Home   Owl   Tea  
  • Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

    1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.
  • 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.

    Morning   Cheer   Coffee  
    1891 Over the Teacups, ch.1.
  • Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

    Tea   Everyday   Ordinary  
    Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead
  • In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

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