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Cups Quotes - Page 12

Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.258

Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.795, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.27

As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.

Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.55, Penguin

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

"Guy Pearce on Batman, Being Offered Daredevil, and Avoiding Terrible Scripts". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.vulture.com. February 25, 2011.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

Gail Parent (1980). “The best laid plans”, Putnam Publishing Group