British Tea Party

England is a nation of shopkeepers. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

I don't want tea, I want justice! - Ally Carter

A cup of tea would restore my normality. - Douglas Adams

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. - Mick Jagger

He was not only a bore; he bored for England. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker

Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. - Janet Clarkson

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea. - Jane Austen

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. - Lord Burleigh

I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British. - Unknown

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept. - Frances Hardinge

There'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood. - Bob Hope

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day. - W Somerset Maugham

The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea. - Victoria Schwab

Tea should be as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword. - Lemony Snicket

England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person. - Jules Michelet

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. - Wilkie Collins

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. - Rob Lowe

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. - Arthur Murphy

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. - George Mikes

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. - Oscar Wilde

I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark. - Duncan Spaeth

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. - Steven Wright

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. - Martin Amis

"Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift

To many, no doubt, he will seem blatent and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British. - Oscar Wilde

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. - Sydney Smith

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. - Jay Leno

If it is good to have one foot in England, it is still better, or at least as good, to have the other out of it. - Henry James

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry, and he's got Mad Power Disease. - Paula Abdul

If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British red as possible. - Cecil Rhodes

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. - Oscar Wilde

The trout enjoys the river,
The whale enjoys the sea,
And dogs love most an old lamp-post,
But you're my cup of tea. - W H Auden

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. - Bernie Taupin