Tea Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. View quote
Edmund Waller
Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea. View quote
Henry Fielding
Thank God for tea What would the world do without tea How did it exist I am glad I was not born before tea. View quote
Sydney Smith
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities ... will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. View quote
William Congreve
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. View quote
C. S. Lewis
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. (Mick Jagger)
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
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 excited, it will calm you. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Here thou, great Anna whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea. View quote
Alexander Pope
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. View quote
Henry James
What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. View quote
Alice Walker
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. View quote
Gary Snyder
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. View quote
Charles Lamb
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? (D. T. Suzuki)
While there is tea, there is hope." () View quote
Arthur Wing Pinero
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
Tea... is a religion of the art of life. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence