Five O'clock Tea Quotes

#1. Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

Charles Colson

#2. As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.

Aprilynne Pike

#3. She wouldn't have sex with me in public bathrooms. Little things like this haunted me. I was only twenty-five.

Michelle Tea

#4. Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

Mark Nepo

#5. In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring her tea, which she steeps with the kind of Zen patience that would make Buddhists sit up in envy and then breathe through their envy and then move past their envy.

Aimee Bender

#6. Her beauty was ethereal, knocking on the door of the part of his psyche that still believed in magic and miracles.

D.A. Henneman

#7. Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.

Phyllis Logan

#8. True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul

Kunal Jajal

#9. I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon ... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

Russell T. Davies

#10. I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

Oscar Wilde

#11. A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.

Garth Stein

#12. They didn't tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

Buzz Aldrin

#13. One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Romany Malco

#14. Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

Ashley Jensen

#15. O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Alexander Pope

#16. My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Wilkie Collins

#17. I'm the smartest at 8 A.M. I wake up at 6, drink three cups of Awake Tazo Tea and read five newspapers. I have to think up something every day, Monday to Friday.

John Waters

#18. I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

Judi Dench

#19. The philanthropist can never forget classes and callings. He says, with a modest swagger, 'I have invited twenty-five factory hands to tea.' If he said 'I have invited twenty-five chartered accountants to tea,' everyone would see the humour of so simple a classification.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. I wake up with the story in my head, so I really like to be at my desk about five minutes after I wake up. So I don't get dressed. I put on a bathrobe, I make tea and sit at my desk.

Ken Follett

#21. Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs.

Steven Weinberg

#22. We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

Joe Arpaio

#23. To us, dinner is a meal eaten at mid-day. Tea is a secondary meal of a substantial nature taken when we get home between five and six o'clock. Supper is a hot drink and "a bit of summat to eat" at bedtime.

Sylvia Lovat Corbridge

#24. I never took you for the defender of Sunday picnics and tea at five

Emma Jane Holloway

#25. Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#26. Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

Agatha Christie

#27. 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 Monro