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Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. (Quote by - Edmund Waller)
There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. (Quote by - Bernard-Paul Heroux)
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment. (Quote by - Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. (Quote by - George Gissing)
Tea should be taken in solitude. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
Tea is liquid wisdom. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. (Quote by - Saki)
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
O' peppermint tea - two delights per sip as steamy hot as passion cool as a wintry lake dip. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage - leave sagacity to the autumn! (Quote by - Linda Solegato)
Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths. (Quote by - John Egerton)
Tea...is a religion of the art of life. (Quote by - Okakura)
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. (Quote by - George Orwell)
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. (Quote by - A.A. Milne)
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. (Quote by - Lu Yu)
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? (Quote by - Rupert Brooke)
As the centerpiece of a cherished ritual, it's a talisman against the chill of winter, a respite from the ho-hum routine of the day. (Quote by - Sarah Engler)
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right. (Quote by - The Quote Garden)
Tea, although an Oriental Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast. (Quote by - G.K. Chesterton)
Tea is instant wisdom - just add water! (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
The first sip of tea is the always the best - when you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion and that from here it will only get colder. (Quote by - The Quote Garden)
Harry found the tea... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest. (Quote by - J.K. Rowling)
Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. (Quote by - Colley Cibber)
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on. (Quote by - Billy Connolly)
Thank God for Tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. (Quote by - Rev. Sydney Smith)
I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. (Quote by - Rev. Sydney Smith)
Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth. (Quote by - Alexander Puskin)
I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. (Quote by -Lu tung)
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. (Quote by - Milton)
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 happyrepose. (Quote by - George Gissing)
If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. (Quote by - Japanese proverb)
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves-slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. (Quote by - Thich Nhat Hanh)
Tea with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. (Quote by - Okakura Kakuzo)
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. (Quote by - T'ien Yiheng)
A cup of tea excels the real. (Quote by - Lian Ya Tang)
I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea. (Quote by - Lu Tung)
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven. (Quote by - Lu Yu)
We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
While there's tea, there's hope. (Quote by - Sir Arthur W. Pinero)
Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness. (Quote by - Lu Yu)
Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. (Quote by - Catherine Douzel)
There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
As long as it's hot, wet, and goes down the right way, it's fine with me. (Quote by - Sarah Ferguson)
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated; it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are exhausted, it will calm you. (Quote by - William Gladstone)
Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. (Quote by - Catherine Helen Spence)
A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea. (Quote by - Phyllis Battelle)
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. (Quote by - Nancy Reagan)
After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often. (Quote by - Gustav Klimt)
American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957. (Quote by - Tom Holt)
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. (Quote by - Yoshio Taniguchi)
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. (Quote by - Ty Cobb)
But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes. (Quote by - Cindy Crawford)
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things. (Quote by - Chaim Potok)
I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops. (Quote by - Zola Budd)
I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan. (Quote by - John Bonham)
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. (Quote by - Mick Jagger)
I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down. (Quote by - Janice Dickinson)
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. (Quote by - Rob Lowe)
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it? (Quote by - Greg Dworkin)
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)
Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know. (Quote by - Sen Rikyu)
The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer. (Quote by - Clara Schumann)
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. (Quote by - Henry James)
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea. (Quote by - Gary Snyder)
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. (Quote by - William Congreve)
They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. (Quote by - Thomas de Quincey)
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. (Quote by - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea. (Quote by - Christian Lacroix)
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy. (Quote by - Anthony Storr)
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work. (Quote by - Sheena Easton)
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex. (Quote by - Boy George)
I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast. (Quote by - Ethel Merman)
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea. (Quote by - John Osborne)
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. (Quote by - Hilaire Belloc)
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads. (Quote by - Satish Kumar)
It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect. (Quote by - Ronald Biggs)
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. (Quote by - Agnes Repplier)
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea. (Quote by - Katherine Dunn)
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other. (Quote by - Ann Beattie)
My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. (Quote by - Cynthia Payne)
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India. (Quote by - Julie Christie)
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. (Quote by - Billy Connolly)
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. (Quote by - Hilaire Belloc)