Coffee And Tea Quotes

• If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Coffee, Food, Book

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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  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.

  William E. Gladstone

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Cups Of Tea

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• The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Morning, Cheer, Coffee

  1891 Over the Teacups, ch.1.

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• I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.

  Ben Oakland

  Coffee, Tea, Java

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• Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Time, Tea Drinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Tea, Buns, World

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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

  Tea, Thank God, World

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.436

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

  Alexander Pushkin

  Glasses, Tea, Pieces

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• I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them.

  Andrea Gibson

  Coffee, Book, Tea

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• I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

  Sydney Smith

  Tea, Creation, Tea Party

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• All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Years, Tea

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.

  John Vanderslice

  Suicide, Strong, Coffee

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• 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

  Coffee, Dirty, Beer

  Gary Snyder, “There Are Those Who Love To Get Dirty”

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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, Tea, Cups

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

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• Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Coffee, Tea, Doe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The Kickleburys on the rhine: By M. A. Titmarsh”, p.9

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• Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

  Henry James

  Life, Tea Drinking, Afternoon

  1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exercise, Cake, Tea Drinking

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.653

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• For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Intellectual, Tea, Beverages

  "The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Including All His Contributions to Periodical Literature".

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• It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

  Dave Barry

  Coffee, Views, Espresso

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.126, Ballantine Books

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• Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Coffee, Second Chance

  "Down the River". Book by Edward Abbey, 1982.

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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

  Perfect, Tea, Style

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• Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

  Bill Cosby

  Birthday, Funny Life, Mistake

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

  Jim Carrey

  Good Morning, Beautiful, Coffee

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• Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Espresso, People

  "Daily Rituals" by Mason Currey, www.slate.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Coffee, Night, Blood

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