Cup of tea Quote by Iain Hollingshead

“I was learning, even in my brief time in England, that a cup of tea almost always helped. I didn't know whether it was…

— Beth Pattillo

“There has of course always been a noisy pacifist or nationalist element in Britain who are ready to traduce the conduct of their fellow…

— Randolph S. Churchill

“fierce tea making in time of war,”

— Geoffrey Hill

“By the way, I may have misled you by using the word 'tea'. None of your wafer slices of bread-and-butter. We're good trencher-men, we…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“By this time, I had become fond of the story that nobody wanted. I revised it again and had 200 twenty-four-page pamphlets printed at…

— Philip Van Doren Stern

“IN THOSE DAYS, your village might change hands every few weeks, one day to the Communists, the next to the Nationalists, the next to…

— Madeleine Thien

“I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I have spent…

— W. Somerset Maugham

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Sometimes Father brought home Rivington’s Gazette from Verplancks. It was a Tory paper and he wasn’t supposed to have it; it was illegal, so…

— James Lincoln Collier

“Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small…

— Max Hastings

“No. We want you to write it down—to camouflage it. Only for the present, of course. Once the thing gets going we shan’t have…

— C.S. Lewis

“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which British sailors…

— George Orwell