Keris Alexander Photography:
"Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"The tea ceremony is more than an idealization of the form of drinking-it is a religion of the art of life."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Tobacco is a companion in solitude; it is a storehouse for reflection and gives time for the fumes of wrath to disperse."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world."
Keris Alexander Photography:
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
Keris Alexander Photography:
"So I must rise at early dawn, as busy as can be, to get my daily labor done, and pluck the leafy tea."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"There's a lot of people for whom a cigarette is about the only vacation they have."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"Come, oh come, ye tea-thirsty restless ones—the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"A pipe is to the troubled soul what caresses of a mother are for her suffering child."
Keris Alexander Photography:
"I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table."