Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Men Quotes, Tea Quotes

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

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Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

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the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

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

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

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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.

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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room.

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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

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Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

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