"I always fear that creation will expire before tea time." Tea quotes by Sydney Smith and other illuminaries.
"I like my tea after sex."
~ Oscar Wilde
"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."
~ Honoré de Balzac
"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."
~ J.B. Priestley
"Thank God for tea! What would the world
do without tea? How
did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea."
"I always fear that creation will expire before teatime."
~ Two tea quotes by Sydney Smith
"Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a
piece of sugar in the
mouth."
~ Alexander Puskin
"As long as it is hot, wet and goes down
the right way, its
fine with me."
~ Sarah Fergerson, The Dutchess of York
"Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I
wonder what you're at! Up
above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky”
~ Lewis Carroll
“'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband,
I'd poison your tea!'
And if you were my wife, I would drink it!”
~ Winston Churchill
"A woman is like a tea bag, you can not
tell how strong she is
until you put her in hot water."
~ Nancy Reagan
"'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee
leave us
much more serious."
~ Lord Byron
"There are many methods for predicting the future."
"For example, you can
read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls.
Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods.""
"Or you can
put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more
commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.""
~ Scott Adams
"Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can
never get
enough."
~ A tea quote by an unknown author.
"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."
~ Gary Snyder
"Tough girls come from New York."
"Sweet girls, they're from
Georgia."
"But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We
can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the
boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'."
"And if we have an
opinion, you know you're gonna hear it."
~ Ashley Judd
"Sit down and drink your GODDAMN tea !@#$%^&*."
~ Cid Highwind
"You've put fucking mushrooms in this haven't you?"
~ Postman Pat
“I was named after it”
~ Mr. T
Finally, no tea quotes will be complete without Dr. Sameul
Johnson's, renown for his gigantic tea appetite:
"A hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for
twenty years with tea amuses the evening, with
tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the evening."
~ Dr. Samuel Johnson on himself.
"Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the
studious,
and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will
not use abstinence."
"I did not count your glass of wine, why should you nunber my
cups of
tea?"
~ Dr. Samuel Johnson when reminded by his friend that he had
drunk 11
cups of tea.
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.
~ Gladstone
There is no trouble so great
or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.
~ Bernard-Paul Heroux
Bread and water can so easily
be toast and tea.
~ Author Unknown
There are few hours in life
more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon
tea.
~ Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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