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Quotes About Tea

Pemphredo had been about to crawl off, but at that she came back and settled down, brushing off her filthy shorts. Deino crossed her legs. Enyo stopped picking at her fingernails with a knife and put it politely away. I kind of felt like I should be serving tea.
~ Karen Chance
The whole sweet tea thing had to be genetic. Or an acquired taste she hadn't developed yet.
~ Katherine Hall Page
...Tea, although an Oriental, Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast...
~ G. K. Chesterton
I've made so many mistakes,' she says. 'I can't help you,' I say. She shakes her head and picks up the baby. 'We'll be out of your way now,' she says. 'Merry Christmas.' "And they leave. I'm pretty shaken up, so I go into the kitchen to make myself some tea. When I get back out to the living room, I notice that the little girl has left her backpack and Tamerlane is on the floor next to it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
parallel lines meet in eternity parallel lives meet for tea
~ Gary Gach
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
~ Gary Oldman
What kind of tea do you want?" "There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?" "Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey." -"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast . You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and tomatoes, black pudding, kidneys, baked beans, fried bread, toast and served with strong English mustard, mind - none of this effete French muck - and a large mug of hot, strong Indian tea.
~ Bryan Talbot
Tea gowns, or "teagies" as they were known, were worn without corsets at teatime—a time of day when gentlemen called on their mistresses—and they were filmy, pretty creations designed with just a hint of the boudoir.
~ Hugh Brewster
I don't drink tea. I hate it. It's mud. Moreover it's one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.
~ Ian Fleming
Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses
~ Ian Fleming
Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?" "I have spies everywhere." I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate. "She had tea with Mahon's wife." Andrea said. Aunt B looked at her. "You and I need to work on your air of mystery.
~ Ilona Andrews
I looked at him. You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.
~ Ilona Andrews
The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey. You're drinking tea a honey badger made, Jim said. What did you expect?
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm going to shoot him," I squeezed through my teeth. "No, that would be murder," Grandma Frida told me, her voice soothing. "You've had a long day. Let's put your magic away. You know what you need? A nice cup of chamomile tea and a tranquilizer . . ." I
~ Ilona Andrews
Do they have target priority protocols?" I asked. "Would they be able to differentiate between a high- and low-priority target?" Rogan's face shut down. "No." "No, they don't?" I clarified. "No, I won't let you do this." We stared at each other. The tension in the room was so thick, you could slice it with a knife and serve it with tea. Leon whistled a melody from a gunfighter Western.
~ Ilona Andrews
Please tell me there is coffee. Aunt B grimaced. They're already crazy. If I let them have coffee, they'd be bouncing off the walls. We have herbal tea, ... I needed to find Julie, find her mom, convince a sociopath to donate some blood for the good of mankind, and deal with a tentacled atrocity swaddled in cloth and his rabid mermaids. I needed coffee.
~ Ilona Andrews
Come in. Tea?" "No." "I'll get you some chamomile," Barabas said. "You look like you need it." "Right now, I'd have to drown in calming tea for it to do any good.
~ Ilona Andrews
I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.
~ Antonio Banderas
I write mainly on trains because when I'm at home I'll be making YouTube videos or editing or just sitting down having a cup of tea as much as I possibly can.
~ Carrie Hope Fletcher
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
I would say the best trick I've pulled was putting salt instead of sugar in Phil Neville's tea.
~ Nikita Parris
I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction.
~ Lynn Coady
I've spent so much time with my dad traveling and seeing the ground-level change that we've been able to make through philanthropy and trip over trip, time over time, country over country, home after home we've been invited into, given tea, given food that people didn't have to give us, I mean all of these things.
~ Howard Warren Buffett