tea quotes

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

- Robert Woodruff Anderson
  On the duties of a headmaster's wife. Tea and Sympathy, act1.

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We in the tournamentyou against me!

- SirJohn Betjeman
  New Bats in Old Belfries,'A Subaltern's Love-Song'.

Tea for two, and two for tea. 183

- Irving Caesar
  No! No! Nanette,'Tea for Two' (with Otto Harbach. Music by VincentYoumans). Roman  general  and  statesman.  As  consul  (59  BC)  and  pro- consul   (58^50   BC)   he  extended  Roman  power   in  Gaul  and Britain.  Refusing  to  disband  his  army,  he  came  into  conflict with the Senate, supported by Pompey, whom Caesar defeated in  the  civil war  that  followed.  He  became  dictator  for  life,  but was  assassinated in  44  BC.  His  works  include  the Commentarii ('War  Commentaries'),  De  Bello  Gallico  ('On  the  Gallic War', 7 vols) and De Bello Civili ('On the CivilWar', 3 vols).

'Take some more tea,'the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 'I've had nothing yet,'Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.' 'You mean you can't take less,'said the Hatter: 'It's very easy to take more than nothing.'

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.7, 'A Mad Tea-Party'.

Tea is like the East he grows in, A great yellow Mandarin With urbanity of manner And unconsciousness of sin.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  The Flying Inn, ch.18, stanza 2. Collected as'The Song of Right and Wrong' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).

Tea, although an Oriental, 212 Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  The Flying Inn, ch.18, stanza 3. Collected as'The Song of Right and Wrong' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).

   Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

-William Congreve
  Mellefont to Charles. The Double Dealer, act1, sc.1.

Ye Lilies male! think (as your tea you sip, While theTown small-talk flows from lip to lip; Intrigues half-gathered, conversation-scraps, Kitchen-cabals, and nursery-mishaps), If the vast world may not some scene produce, Some state where your small talents might have use.

- George Crabbe
  The Borough, letter 3,'The Vicar', l.69^74.

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

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
  Grip, the raven. Barnaby Rudge, ch.17.

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

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Henry Fielding
  Love in Several Masques, act 4, sc.11.

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 originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
  'They Can't  Take That  Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

Yo no digo por eso que el te   no sea saludable†cuando duelen las tripas†pero al cabo no pasa de ser agua caliente; so  lo pod|a habernos venido de Inglaterra, que como all | son herejes, ni tendra  n vino, ni bueyes cebones. I'm not saying that tea is not healthy†when you have a stomach ache†but, all in all, it is only hot water; it could only come from the English, who, being heretics as they are, probably have no wine or good beer.

- Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza
  Contigo pan y cebolla, act1.

   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. 408

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Over the Teacups, ch.1.

I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

- Chrissie Hynde
  In the Daily Telegraph,19  Apr.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

- Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water†Begob, ma'am, says Mrs.Cahill, God send you don't make them in the one pot.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

E M Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea. And I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

-Beauchamp
   Journal entry, May.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.There can be no substitute for myexperience and intuited knowledge.

-Timothy Mo
  An Insular Possession, ch.4.

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 Edward Monro
  'Milk for the Cat'.

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel takeand sometimes tea.

- Alexander Pope
  The Rape of the Lock, canto 3, l.7^8.

Thetrouble isthat we drink toomuchtea.I see inthisthe slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

-J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
  In the Observer,15 May.

And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?

- Henry Reed
  The Private Life of HildaTablet, radio play.

A woman is like a tea bag; when she is in hot water she just gets stronger.

- (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt
Quoted by Hillary Rodham Clinton in theWall Street  Journal, 30 Sep1994.

Drinking the best tea in the world in an empty cricket groundthat, I think, is the final pleasure left to man.

- C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron Snow
  Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; Foreverynight attea-timeand before youtakeyourseat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.30,'The Lamplighter', stanza1.