Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Tea Party...


Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~Author Unknown

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.  ~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady




A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you
forget about afterwards.
~A.A. Milne


You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.  ~C.S. Lewis






Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?

Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.

March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.

Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.




"Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place."
                                                        -The Wind in the Willows


"The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea."



-Frances Hodgson Burnett
 
 

"A Little Princess...it's always tea-time... "

-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
 

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