Quote by J.B. Priestley
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. – J.B. Priestley

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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. – J.B. Priestley

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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley

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Tea is instant wisdom — just add water! – Astrid Alauda

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The man breathed in deeply—of rosebuds and mint, of sunny meadows and salty cliffs, of streams in no hurry and the sound of bagpipes. – Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea, 1993

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“Tea” to the English is really a picnic indoors. – Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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Even the sleeping kettle has stories to tell. – Terri Guillemets, “What the house things hear,” 1996

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