A Cuppa PINK

For PINK SATURDAY I have chosen to show my little pink teapot.

Tea is instant wisdom - just add water!
~Astrid Alauda

If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you.
~Gladstone, 1865

It's one of several I have on display (see it on the shelf second from the right?)

Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?
~Rupert Brooke, "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester," 1912
(Thanks, Helen)


I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
~Sydney Smith

I haven't bought a new teapot in quite some time.
I could not resist this one at Tuesday Morning last week.
A perfect literary pot for one.

The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.
~The Quote Garden

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
~Japanese Proverb

Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.
~Author Unknown

The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
~George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
(I even read the above book just because of that opening quote. It wasn't my favorite)

I also picked up these tea coasters while I was there:

Tea is liquid wisdom.
~Anonymous

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. ~Bernard-Paul Heroux

Hmmm, I didn't think to get out my tea cups! I'll save that for another day.