Crumpets for me are the quintessence of a British…

My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every…

— Kevin Kwan

“Coffee could easily become lunch if one was not careful, and lunch could so comfortably slip into afternoon tea.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't…

— Eddie Izzard

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

— Henry James

I would give my back tooth - the one with the silver filling - to eat afternoon tea with my mother.

— Grace Dent

“You can serve high tea around the dining room table, but afternoon tea is more of a living room occasion, with everything brought in…

— Angela Hynes

“Mrs. Jones had invited a great and well-known violinist to entertain at her afternoon tea. When it was all over, everyone crowded around the…

— John C. Maxwell

“Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups and the…

— Anonymous

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

— Henry James

“At that moment, Bobbie Faye felt an unbridled hatred for every movie heroine who'd ever raced away from he villain in Jimmy Choo shoes,…

— Toni McGee Causey

Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea.

— Anwar al-Awlaki

Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.

— Jethro Tull

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

— Suki Waterhouse

“Miss West is never idle. Below, in the big after-room, she does her own laundering. Nor will she let the steward touch her father's…

— Jack London

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors.…

— Diane Ackerman