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11 posts tagged Tea
11 posts tagged Tea
“Yes, that’s it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it’s always tea time.”
“Twinkle, twinkle little bat.
How I wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.”
John Tenniel, illustration of “A Mad Tea Party” in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
“Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.”
Francisco Miralles y Gallup, Afternoon Tea, date unknown (Spanish painter, 1848-1901) via stellar-raven
“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”
Mary Cassatt, Tea, 1879-1880 via Wikimedia Commons
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
“She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.”
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”