Tea Quotes - Page 4

• A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Glasses, Scotland, Cost

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press

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• Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

  Queen Victoria

  Cups, Cups Of Tea, Tea Time

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• I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

  Jackie Chan

  Drinking, Fighting, Together

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• My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Giving, Cups, Affair

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy”, p.14, Booklassic

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• Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Glasses, Pieces, Mouths

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• I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Nice, Home

  "Self Talks to Tennis Star Maria Sharapova (She's got a sweet tooth!)". Interview with Bari Lieberman, www.self.com. August 30, 2011.

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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

  Real, Thinking, Honey

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.46, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Wine, Affair

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• Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Art, Drinking

  Kakuzo Okakura (2008). “The Book of Tea”, p.43, Applewood Books

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• Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Window Panes, Vision, Indecision

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

  Agatha Christie

  Cups, Said, Specialty

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder, The Murder at the Vicarage”

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• The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Cups, Used, Becky

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.134, Xist Publishing

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• While there is tea, there is hope.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  There Is Hope

  Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1908). “The Plays of Arthur W. Pinero: Sweet Lavender”

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• I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

  Zola Budd

  Home, Tea Drinking, Atmosphere

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• Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.

  Isabella Beeton

  Cake, Afternoon, Guests

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• And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.

  Martha Grimes

  Rooms, Fours, Marvelous

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• Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.

  Dorothea Johnson

  Art, Quality, Loved Ones

  Dorothea Johnson (2002). “Tea and Etiquette”, p.16, Capital Books

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• Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gentleman, Coward, Cad

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Song Of Right And Wrong”

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• Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Order, Everyday

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sick, Six Months, Lasts

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• In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Men, Understanding, Truth And Beauty

  "The Book of Tea". Book by Okakura Kakuzo, 1906.

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• Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Party, Novelty, Meals

  Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2004). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.326, Penguin UK

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• As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, its fine with me.

  Sarah Ferguson

  Long, Hot, Way

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• 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

  Revenge, Rivers, Yellow

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• My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

  Wilkie Collins

  Past, Waiting, Half

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections”, p.484, 谷月社

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