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Quotes About Tea

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age
~ William Cobbett
Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
~ William Congreve
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urnThrows up a steamy column, and the cups,That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
~ William Cowper
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in.
~ William Cowper
He was holding a tray. On the tray were two glasses of milky Indian chai. 'Chota hazari, sahib,' said Ladoo. Bed tea. 'What a nice gesture,' I said returning to Olivia. 'Mrs Puri has sent us up some tea.' 'I wish she had sent it up two hours later,' said Olivia from beneath her sheets.
~ William Dalrymple
Drinking tea is like kissing your dog. It's warm and wet, sure, but where's the kick? If I need to, I'll just pick up another Venti at the Starbucks and use the bathroom there.
~ William Lashner
Heitor sipped his tea, a dainty counterpoint to the violent topic.
~ David L. Robbins
Anyone in search of chocolate eventually makes the pilgrimage to Ladurée, the world-famous tea salon just off the place de la Madeleine.
~ David Lebovitz
It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
~ Robert Bly
Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?
~ Frank McCourt
Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.
~ Rumer Godden
I've been told I make a very good brew.
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
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.
~ Satish Kumar
Home is where your teapots are.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Where there's tea, there's hope.
~ Arthur Wing Pinero
While there is tea, there is hope.
~ Arthur Wing Pinero
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Frank once slipped something into the pocket of a luggage handler at the airport and said: "Have a drink on me." The luggage handler later found out it was a tea bag.
~ Frank Carson
Because he was English and that's what the English do under stress: they drink tea.
~ Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane
Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.
~ Marissa Meyer, Heartless
Have some more tea, dear, " Hester said, reaching for the pot and refilling my cup. "I always find that helps.
~ Beth Pattillo
I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.
~ Misha Collins
Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Humor is the honey in my tea.
~ Marcia Sirota