Best Quotes About Tea (Top 45)
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
Ann Patchett
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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
Dodie Smith
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The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that — No, no! They can't take that away from me!
Ira Gershwin
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There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
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You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep...
Louis Tomlinson
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
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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
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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Sydney Smith
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There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
Lin Yutang
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That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.
Miranda July
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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
Arnold Bennett
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American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.
Tom Holt
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Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
Billy Connolly
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Alexander Pushkin
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I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
James Boswell
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding
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Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them.
Greg Mortenson
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When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.
Harold Monro
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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker
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I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?
Frank McCourt
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On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! And the Monkeys all say Boo! Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang! And you just cant catch em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning! Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang! What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!
Spike Milligan
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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
William Faulkner
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We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can get along this well, we can accomplish anything. The British policy was "divide and conquer.' But I say "unite and conquer.
Greg Mortenson
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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones — the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
Boy George
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Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.
Jonathan Coe
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
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I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.
Brandi Glanville
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We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.
Christopher Isherwood
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I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
Sydney Smith
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Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
Rupert Brooke
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When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?
Margery Allingham
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Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Thomas de Quincey
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Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
Colley Cibber
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
Bernard Berenson
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"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."
Alexandra Stoddard
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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
Anthony Storr
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An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
George Carey
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A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.
Nancy Reagan
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Agnes Repplier
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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
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When we sip tea, we are on our way to serenity.
Alexandra Stoddard
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire Belloc