Logo
Quote by Wilkie Collins
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for

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

Other quotes by Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Womans patience can endure, and what a Mans resolution can achieve. – Wilkie Collins

Category:
Patience
Author
Wilkie Collins
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Tea
category

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence…. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. – Okakura Kakuzō

Category:
Tea

I take pleasure in tea, appreciating it with my spirit and therefore cannot explain why. – Sen Joo

Category:
Tea

Tea is the symbol of and antidote to civilization. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Tea

Deciding to spice up the morning by filling the kettle slightly past the recommended level, then thinking better of it. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

Category:
Tea

Random Quotes

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant – sushi restaurant. – Masaharu Morimoto

Category:
Dreams

Most modern science fiction went to school on Dune. Even Harry Potter with its boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion. – Gary Ross

Category:
Religion

No one is free who does not lord over himself. – Claudius

Category:
Discipline

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the films future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. – Donald Pleasence

Category:
Future