Civilised Quote by Ann Leckie Download Open image “If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.” — Ann Leckie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilised Essentials Ifs Life Tea
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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
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Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. The beverage… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
“Tea carries within itself; knowledge, wisdom, and wellness; for the sake of giving.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“The gender thing is a giveaway, though. Only a Radchaai would misgender people the way you do." I'd guessed wrong. "I can't see under… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“If you’d refused, nothing would have changed, except you’d be dead too. You did what you had to do,” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“Ridiculous!" scoffed Anaander. "Translator, ships and stations are not Significant beings, they are my property. I caused them to be built." "I'm given to… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“I saw them all, suddenly, for just a moment, through non-Radchaai eyes, an eddying crowd of unnervingly ambiguously gendered people. I saw all the… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“The smallest, most seemingly insignificant event is part of an intricate whole and to understand why one particular mote of dust falls in one… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image