“All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. ”

“Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.”

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

“it was only a hopeless fantasy,it passed like an april day,but a look and a word and the dreams they stirredthey have stolen my heart away.”

“The past is a curious thing. It’s with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it’s got no reality, it’s just a set of facts that you’ve learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn’t merely come back to you, you’re actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.”

“But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.”

“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”