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Quotes About Tea

Happiness can start by a conversation with coffee or Tea.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn't help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours.
~ Jan Karon
I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his messages, for his Love at least--his Duty I suppose was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced however that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of Tea.
~ Jane Austen
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
~ Japanese Proverb
Tea and water give each other life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water vitality.
~ Jason Goodwin
Tea and water give each oter life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water virality,' he added. '... Afterwards, the taste still happens... It rises like velvet... It is a performance.
~ Jason Goodwin
Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
~ Jasper Fforde
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
~ Dylan Thomas
one day Warren was admitted for his counseling and the Master threw a cup of cold green tea in his face and that was the lesson of the day.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Cake and tea or death?
~ Eddie Izzard
I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.
~ Edith Wharton
The provocation in her eyes increased his amusement—he had not supposed she would waste her powder on such small game; but perhaps she was only keeping her hand in; or perhaps a girl of her type had no conversation but of the personal kind. At any rate, she was amazingly pretty, and he had asked her to tea and must live up to his obligations.
~ Edith Wharton
There was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder; He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat, Which vexed all the folks on the Border.
~ Edward Lear
Bridget carried cups of tea over to the two men, and as she turned to fetch her own cup, David held the burning tip of his cigar close to the ants and ran it along in both directions as far as he could conveniently reach. The ants twisted, excruciated by the heat, and dropped down onto the terrace. Some, before they fell, reared up, their stitching legs trying helplessly to repair their ruined bodies. 'What a civilized life you have here,' Bridget sang out as
~ Edward St. Aubyn
To my grandmother, chagrin was a genuine physical disease. Like a hurt leg or a broken arm. To treat chagrin, you drank tea from leaves that only my grandmother and other old wise women could recognize.
~ Edwidge Danticat
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
~ Alexander Pope
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth." [From: 19 Lessons On Tea]
~ Alexander Pushkin
The 'art of tea' is a spiritual force for us to share.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
I'll make some tea' she said, without consultation. The tears had not fully abated, and there were times when tea was the only thing.
~ Rebecca Tope
I won't get killed,' Rose protested. Is that a promise?' Fish asked dryly, stirring his tea. 'If you break your word, I'll never believe you again.' Rose shook her head at him. 'How can you even taste your tea if you put that much sugar in it?' Don't change the subject. I don't want to be responsible for depriving the world of Rose Brier. Under no circumstances are you allowed to help us do anything more dangerous than...change the oil in my car.
~ Regina Doman
Sure. Why not?" he said. "A cup of tea. That's what everyone drank all through the war. A bomb was dropped and everyone said, 'It's all right. Have a cup of tea.'" And he laughed.
~ Rhys Bowen
Tiny finger sandwiches, biscuits and cakes, grapes and tangerines and of course my scones with jam and cream. Mr Phelps and Jimmy came to help me as I made shortbreads, ginger biscuits from Germany that were a favourite of the queen, macaroons and lemon curd tarts. At the last minute, we prepared cucumber, egg and cress, and smoked salmon sandwiches, wrapping them immediately into damp linen napkins to keep them moist. Flasks of tea were prepared.
~ Rhys Bowen
On this occasion it was a tea party. Cook had been baking all morning: scones and sponge cakes and shortbreads so that the kitchen was full of wonderful aromas. And all afternoon she had been making little tea sandwiches—cucumber, egg and cress, smoked salmon.
~ Rhys Bowen