Afternoon Quote by George Gissing

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

— Anonymous

“There are some occasions when you must not refuse a cup of tea, otherwise you are judged an exotic and barbarous bird without any…

— George Mikes

“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea”

— Henry James

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

— Alice Walker

Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions…

— Ayn Rand

“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple, authentic and refined sensations, a license…

— Muriel Barbery

“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple,authentic and refined sensations, a license given…

— Muriel Barbery

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

— Jane Austen

“Like Okakura, I know that tea is no minor beverage. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability…

— Muriel Barbery

“Afternoon tea needn’t stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense.…

— Paul Kortepeter

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

— Henry James

“a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has…

— Samuel Johnson