Tea Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.

  John Egerton

  Ice, Weather, Hot

  John Egerton (1990). “Side Orders: Small Helpings of Southern Cookery & Culture”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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• Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea.

  Irving Caesar

  Two, Knees

  "Tea for Two" (song) (1924)

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• Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Art, Cups Of Tea, Iced Tea

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

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• Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

  T. S. Eliot

  Strength, Cake, Ice

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

  Steven Morrissey

  Trying, One Day, Disturbed

  Interviewed for Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea, BBC Televison, 2013.

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• Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Agony, Small Talk, Dies

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.240

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• As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Healing, Healthy, Important

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• Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Rain, Wind, Four

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• Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Pretty Woman, Looks

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.190, Oxford University Press

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• The gentle fair on nervous tea relies,
  Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes;
  An inoffensive scandal fluttering round,
  Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound.

  George Crabbe

  Eye, Gay, Light

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.300

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• That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Girl, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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• Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

  W. H. Auden

  Running, Fire, Squares

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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

  Writing, Yield, Joy

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Wine, Water, Vineyards

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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

  Cat, Eye, Poetry

  Children of Love (1914) "Milk for the Cat"

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• On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the fire was a folding-chair, unfolded and with cushions on it; by the chair was a small folding-table, unfolded, covered with a white cloth, and upon it were spread small covered dishes, a cup and saucer, and a tea-pot; on the bed were new, warm coverings, a curious wadded silk robe, and some books. The little, cold, miserable room seemed changed into Fairyland. It was actually warm and glowing.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Book, White, Fire

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Racketty-Packetty House and Other Stories”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

  Judi Dench

  Eggs, Yorkshire, Able

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• To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.

  Shay Mitchell

  Eye, Bags, Spoons

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• While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

  Arthur Godfrey

  Voice, Elation, Heat

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• It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday.

  Niall Williams

  Uplifting, Heart, Holiday

  Niall Williams, Christine Breen (1989). “O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare”, Soho PressInc

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• When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating it...then a glass will be filled and poured back into the mixture, blending it further. The comes waiting. Motionless waiting. Finally, from high up, like some green cataract whose sight and sound mesmerize, the tea will once again cascade into a glass. Now it can be drunk, dreamily, forehead bowed, fingers held wide away from the scalding glass.

  Simonne Jacquemard

  Glasses, Sight, Drunk

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• He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There's something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes the way I imagine the Far East must taste.

  Peter Høeg

  Dark, Dust, Black

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.152, Macmillan

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• The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

  Joseph Addison

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.372

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• I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.

  Antonio Banderas

  Morning, White, Buckets

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