Quotes About Tea And Cakes

#1. Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

Geoff Mulgan

#2. The future of economics is feminist.

Margunn Bjornhold

#3. I have a deposition Monday, I have a career - !" "You haven't anymore. What you have is here, in Rhadaz. I won't apologize," Merrida said flatly. "If your loss is great, it would be an impertinence.

Ru Emerson

#4. The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Phaedrus

#5. Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Emile Zola

#6. We'd been waltzing and eating tea cakes with a murderer.

Alyxandra Harvey

#7. Your routine attitude towards the animals must be to let them free! Your routine attitude towards the people must be to let them free!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. The index is retrospective. The crucial alpha, the entropy, the signal modulating that linear advance ... comes from knowledge of the entrepreneurial surprises harbored on the edge of the noise.

George Gilder

#9. The old with the old, the young with the young, the hostess by the tea table, on which there were exactly the same cakes in a silver basket as the Panins had at their soiree - everything was exactly the same as with everyone else.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.

Horace Greeley

#11. Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

Gerald Durrell

#12. Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

Nora Roberts

#13. Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#14. When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

Laurie Colwin

#15. Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.

Helen Simpson

#16. Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.

Tim Sandlin

#17. This connection extended far beyond a physical union. He'd give her anything. He wanted to give her everything.

Pepper Winters

#18. There's no end to the process of learning about the Toyota Way. I don't think I have a complete understanding even today, and I have worked for the company for 43 years.

Katsuaki Watanabe

#19. A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

John Harvey Kellogg

#20. Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching ... not by words but by our example.

Mother Teresa

#21. Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.

Isabella Beeton

#22. We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs ...

Charles Dickens

#23. If you believe you can, or believe you can't - either way you're right

Kevin Dutton

#24. We are perhaps the only species on Earth to be conscious of the inevitability of our individual mortality. I fear that soon we shall also have to become the only species that will knowingly watch the coming of its own collective demise, or at least the demise of its civilization.

Carlo Rovelli

#25. Beginning with Bilbo's unexpected party in chapter 1 with its tea, seed-cakes, buttered scones, apple-tarts, mince-pies, cheese, eggs, cold chicken, pickles, beer, coffee, and smoke rings, we find that a reverence, celebration, and love of the everyday is an essential part of Tolkien's moral vision

Devin Brown

#26. Do you connect to your customers by asking questions and genuinely listening to the answers? And if so, do you take the extra step to connect those customers to expertly personalized solutions? Do you take time to drastically adjust your message to meet each individual customer's needs?

Darren Hardy

#27. The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Jamie L. Harding