Ideal world Quote by John Mortimer

“There was not enough tea in the world to make it bearable.”

— Tarun Shanker

“Pouring tea was just what she needed right now. Such a civilizing force, tea. She would nip sugar with little silver tongs. Stir milk…

— Tessa Dare

“The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.”

— Shana Abe

“Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible.”

— L.L. Barkat

“It was the chief thing he knew about women: that they could always be calmed down by the fact, or even by the prospect,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a strategem.”

— Edward Young

“When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea.”

— Erin Morgenstern

“tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too…

— Graham Greene

“I have called for tea. There is no situation that is not made better with tea.”

— Rose Servitova

“The elegant European women didn't stay for tea, but the promise of tomorrow hung in the air.”

— Yoooo

“She found it sinful and expensive to have sugar in her tea, although she herself never spent a penny on anything.”

— Ivan S. Turgenev