"And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas."

-- Martha Grimes

#Tea Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Fours Quotes

“I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .”
“Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.”
“I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.”
“AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.”
“Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.”
“The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.”
“I have a huge support base of people that love me around the world: millions of fans and supporters and growing.”
“Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.”

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