| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 25375 |
| QUOTATION: | One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn’t every nation have its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Winckelmann, sect. “Strangers,” (1805). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Goethe Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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