Tea Quotes - Page 2

• Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

  Charles Dickens

  Kettles

  1841 Grip, the raven. Barnaby Rudge, ch.17.

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• ..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

  Clive Barker

  Firsts, Armageddon, Brewing

  Clive Barker (2015). “Weaveworld”, p.560, Crossroad Press

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• A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

  A. A. Milne

  Forget

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• Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Cups Of Tea

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• "The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Spiritual, Art, Share

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• 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Secret, Way, Cups

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

  Mick Jagger

  Funny, Three, Nasty

  "Song: "Live With Me" ("Let It Bleed")". December 5, 1969.

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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

  Spring, Civilization, Luxury

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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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, Littles

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

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• Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tea Drinking, People, Tea Party

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

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• I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ironic, Selfishness, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Parallel lines meet in eternity but
  Parallel lives meet for tea

  Gary Gach

  Life, Lines, Eternity

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• Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.

  J. K. Rowling

  Littles, Found, Fluttering

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• The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong

  Barry Pain

  Song, Strong, Gay

  Barry Pain (1892). “Playthings and Parodies”, London [etc.] Cassell

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• Tea should be taken in solitude.

  C. S. Lewis

  Taken, Solitude, Should

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Long

  "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

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• Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Medicine, Beverages, Grew

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

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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

  Soul, Doe, Vapour

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.211

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• I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

  Samuel Johnson

  Morning, Food, Tea Drinking

  Review in the 'Literary Magazine' vol. 2, no. 13 (1757)

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• 'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea.

  Alice Taylor

  May, Want, Drink

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• Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Dream, Delight

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing

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• Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

  George Orwell

  Country, Civilization, Tea Drinking

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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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, Coffee And Tea

  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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• Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Home, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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