Tea Quote by Thomas de Quincey

“A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.”

— Thomas de Quincey

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a…

— Thomas de Quincey

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are…

— Thomas de Quincey

Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!

— Thomas de Quincey

The burden of the incommunicable.

— Thomas de Quincey

Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning.

— Thomas De Quincey

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read…

— Thomas de Quincey

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

— Thomas de Quincey

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters…

— Thomas de Quincey

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands…

— Thomas de Quincey

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I…

— Thomas de Quincey

“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to…

— Thomas de Quincey