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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. -- Henry James
Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea! -- Agatha Christie
Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea. -- Jethro Tull
Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea. -- Anwar al-Awlaki
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. -- George Gissing
I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite. -- Maria Sharapova
If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea. -- Sophie McShera
Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks. -- Suki Waterhouse
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. -- Henry James
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive. -- Isabella Beeton
Very few restaurants do five services a day - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail, theatre and dinner - and because of that we can offer something for everyone. -- Gordon Ramsay
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every day, and my grandfather, who attended university in Scotland, would smoke his pipe after dinner. -- Kevin Kwan
Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' " -- Eddie Izzard
Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall. Pippin: But what about breakfast? Aragorn: You've already had it. Pippin: We've had one, yes. But what about second breakfast? [Aragorn stares at him, then walks off.] Merry: Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip. Pippin: What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he? Merry: I wouldn't count on it Pip. -- Peter Jackson
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets â?? that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. -- Constance Spry
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. -- Ann Patchett

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