A Quote by Edith Wharton

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Edith Wharton

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Cups Full Never Tea Them

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Edith Wharton
American - Novelist
January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Cups of tea: People in England are always drinking cups of tea. "Oh let's have a cup of tea " they say. "That will prove we are English and not American." Sometimes American people try to have cups of tea to pretend they are English but forget it We can always tell you are faking it

Andy Stanton

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

I drink about 30 cups of tea a day. I'm a complete tea addict.

Richard Branson

I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.

S. T. Joshi

He loves tea. Harjeet can drink even 100 cups of tea.

Ammy Virk

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

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

I couldn't live without tea. I have two cups in the morning, one at lunch, two in the afternoon and one in the evening - Assam with milk and sugar. It has to be leaf tea - no bags - and drunk from a china cup.

Gilbert O'Sullivan

Not many know but I did maximum films with Sunil Dutt, who was a thorough gentleman and enthusiastic about everything. He loved making tea for everybody on the sets and that is how I formed habit of having four to five cups of tea in a day.

Asha Parekh

Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

William Cowper

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

Maureen Johnson

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

Neil Gaiman

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

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

Bindi Irwin

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

I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.

Goran Ivanisevic

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