Source: East of Eden (1952)
Context: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.
“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
Source: Lady Audley's Secret
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Source: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 12 (p. 364)
“It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.”
Commenting on American Football, in interview with Howard Cosell on ABC Television (December 1974)
“Makes Room at the Top look like a vicarage tea-party.”
The Daily Telegraph, reviewing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; cited from The Bookseller, October 25, 1958, p. 1641.
Also used as a tagline for the 1960 film adaptation.
Criticism
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. ”