“The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
“Teas,
Where small talk dies in agonies.”
Peter Bell the Third (1819), Pt. III, st. 12
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William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
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”
E.M. Forster book Howards End
Source: Howards End
“Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?”
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.”
Frances Hardinge (1973) British children's writer
John Keble (1792–1866) English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement
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.”
Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister
После смерти Махатмы Ганди поговорить не с кем. <br class="br">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 <br class="br">2006- 2010
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
The Desire of Ages http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll/egw-comp/section00000.htm/book01247.htm/chapter01301.htm, Ch. 52, p. 480) <br class="br">Conflict of the Ages series
“I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.”
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) British soldier and statesman
As quoted in Collections and Recollections (1898) by G. W. E. Russell, ch.14.