Tea quotes
641 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself."
"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."
"Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."
"Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting."
"If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?"
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"If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?"
"It's always tea-time."
"Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time."
"Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water."
"Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake"
"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."
"Oh, get out of the way, Percy,” said Fred. “Harry’s in a hurry.” “Yeah, he’s off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant,” said George, chortling."
"England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea."
"Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea."
"I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down."
"'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea."
"And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first."
"Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently."
"Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea."
"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea."
"There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life."
"If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death."
"Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky."
"There is not enough tea in the world to calm me."
"Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either."
