Top 67 Quotes About Tea Cups
#1. Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
W. H. Auden
#2. I'd always worried but kissing's not so tricky. Your lips know what to do, just like sea anenomes know what to do. Kissing spins you, like Flying Tea-Cups. Oxygen the girl breathes out, you breathe in.
David Mitchell
#3. My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used.
Kristin Cashore
#4. There's absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups. Who the hell wants to pay to spin around like a bent yoyo for laughs?
Akshay Kumar
#5. Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them ...
Edith Wharton
#6. She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#7. This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.
Steve Jobs
#8. Alice would give anything, anything at all, to be lying in bed with Nick, waiting for a cup of tea. Maybe he got sick of making her cups of tea? Was that it? Had she taken him for granted? Who did she think she was, some sort of princess, lying in bed waiting for cups of tea to be delivered.
Liane Moriarty
#9. Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Samuel Johnson
#10. I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.
Goran Ivanisevic
#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. The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing ...
Alan Dapre
#13. I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.
Miranda Kerr
#14. In 'Three Cups of Tea' I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.
Greg Mortenson
#15. If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#16. I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.
Mac DeMarco
#18. Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [ ... ] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
George Gissing
#19. Overworked, as usual. It happens to those who are particularly good at their jobs. She handed Eve a cup of tea in one of the pretty china cups.
J.D. Robb
#20. 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
#21. Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.
Maureen Johnson
#22. I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
S.T. Joshi
#23. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in.
William Cowper
#24. The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison - provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years.
Frederik Pohl
#25. I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.
Edward Carey
#26. Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they're at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they're lurking in my shower. Sometimes they're waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.
Erin Morgenstern
#27. My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.
Flannery O'Connor
#28. White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
James Joyce
#29. I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.
Ned Kelly
#30. The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.
Louis Tomlinson
#31. Dads had favourite armchairs in which they sat like starship captains, issuing orders and receiving cups of tea and shouting at the news without fear of contradiction.
David Nicholls
#32. Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die.
Greg Mortenson
#33. Including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party.
Tess Gerritsen
#34. If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea ...
Peter Scott
#35. Celia endeavors to be as helpful as she can, which consists mainly of fetching cups of tea and finding new and creative ways to assure people everything will be fine.
Erin Morgenstern
#36. 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
#37. Mrs. Earwig (pronounced Ar-wige, at least by Mrs. Earwig) believed in shiny wands, and magical amulets and mystic runes and the power of the stars, while Granny Weatherwax in cups of tea, dry biscuits, washing every morning in cold water and, well ... mostly she believed in Granny Weatherwax.
Terry Pratchett
#38. Cole felt like he'd stumbled into some arcane Templar practise, his sense of ease disappearing the moment the cups were pulled from the shelf.
Danika Stone
#39. I peered around the corner into the main recovery ward. All I could see were surgeons. Surgeons filling out those incessant forms. Surgeons bringing cups of tea and little sandwich triangles to patients. Surgeons laying in a lethargic stupor, recovering from eye surgery.
Lauren Pearce
#40. Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.
James M. Barrie
#41. Get a good book, get few bottles of water or few cups of tea/coffee or Chocolate milk and start reading.
Deyth Banger
#42. Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.
Jeffrey Rasley
#43. I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
Brian Jones
#44. Chlorotic, with a sunken chest, he smoked incessantly, wore cheap shirts that had grayed in the wash, drank endless cups of sugary tea.
Donna Tartt
#45. It's all very well having these emotional moments, but eventually after two cups of tea, someone has to go to the bathroom.
Jodi Taylor
#46. Sadie poured two cups of tea, dark and strong, the kind of tea that needed milk to take the edge off the tannin and then sugar to penetrate the fat of the milk.
Carl Sampson
#47. The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.
Nhat Hanh
#48. You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.
Karl Pilkington
#49. Lhyn watched her with a smile. "You do realize that's your fourth cup and it's not even midmeal. Shouldn't you be starting a bit lower than full addict level?" "I am a full addict; what's the use in pretending? Besides, it's only three and a half cups.
Fletcher DeLancey
#50. If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.
Michael Winter
#51. I drink about 30 cups of tea a day. I'm a complete tea addict.
Richard Branson
#52. The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.
Anna Quindlen
#54. For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.
Katarina Bivald
#55. 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
#56. The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.
Ben Howard
#58. The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
Charles Dickens
#59. I read the tea leaves
as if they were words
left over from a conversation
between two cups.
Kenny Knight
#60. If her back had ever hurt like this when she was twenty she would have been hysterical, demanding painkillers and cups of tea in bed, but she has found that nobody is especially surprised to hear you're in pain when you're in your eighties. You might find it astonishing, but nobody else does.
Liane Moriarty
#61. I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.
Bindi Irwin
#62. Kombucha tea from a previous batch (e.g., ½ cup per quart or 2 cups per gallon). If you are
Cultures For Health
#63. On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying Wait.
Douglas Adams
#64. A cup of tea is a cup of peace.
Ken Cohen
#65. Tea to the English is really picnic indoors. Plenty of sandwiches and cookies and of course hot tea. We all used the same cups and plates. (Walker 2000: 116)
Alice Walker
#66. According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.
Neil Gaiman
#67. Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink ...
Rumer Godden
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