Lewis Carroll Quotes

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

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

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

In modern Western culture, the new is considered better than the old, and thus change itself is considered good; in tradition bound Arab cultures, the old is considered better than the new, and thus the retention of the existing order is good.

China's a big tea culture.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow the blueprint of the old. They can make family traditions out of whatever makes them feel comfortable and helps bring a sense of order and stability to their lives.

In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.

It's always tea-time.

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes.