Tea proverbs

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◆ So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?

- Alexander McCall Smith98

◆ 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 Durrell98

◆ The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

- William Faulkner98

◆ Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

- Neil Gaiman98

◆ Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

- Cassandra Clare98

◆ and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

- Virginia Woolf98

◆ My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

- Charles Dickens98

◆ a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

- Samuel Johnson98

◆ Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

- Christine Feehan98

◆ 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.

- Lu Yu98

◆ There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

- Alan Clark98

◆ While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

- E.M. Forster98

◆ Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

- Samuel Johnson98

◆ Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

- Alice Walker98

◆ A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

- Phoebe Stone98