“The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.”
“Teas,
Where small talk dies in agonies.”
Peter Bell the Third (1819), Pt. III, st. 12
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English Romantic poet 1792–1822Related quotes
Mutation. A Sonnet http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page73 (1824)
“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea”
Source: Howards End
“Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?”
“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 182.
“There is no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died.”
После смерти Махатмы Ганди поговорить не с кем.
Responding to a question "Former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called you a 'pure democrat'. Do you consider yourself such?" June 4, 2007, http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2007/06/04/2149_type82916_132716.shtml
2006- 2010
The Desire of Ages http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll/egw-comp/section00000.htm/book01247.htm/chapter01301.htm, Ch. 52, p. 480)
Conflict of the Ages series
“I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.”
As quoted in Collections and Recollections (1898) by G. W. E. Russell, ch.14.