Tea Quotes
Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book (1995).
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'Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch, and tea Are all the human frame requires?' With that the wretched child expires.
hilaire belloc— Cautionary Tales, "Henry King" (1907)
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding— 1728 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!
Fred Astaire— "They Can't Take That Away from Me", song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (1937), music by George Gershwin. 1937
Our office corner has really become an area where the tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.
gabrielle giffords— Comment following a window being smashed at her congressional office in Arizona &mdash Richard Cowan (January 9, 2011). "Shooting could subdue overheated U.S. political rhetoric". National Post (Reuters). Retrieved on 2011-01-10. alternate link
"Summon him forth," instructed the Will. "Let justice be meted out. There is much to do, you know, Arthur." "You'd think we could 'ave a cup of tea and biscuit first," muttered Suzy .
garth nix— p. 392. (Mister Monday (2003))
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
— Chaim Potok. Quoted in: 99 Things to Do Between Here and Heaven. Kathleen Long Bostrom, Peter Graystone. Westminster John Knox Press, 2009. ISBN: 0664233244, page 61.
Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto I.
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— 1891Over the Teacups, ch.1.
In her heart she harbors hatred for me, but it would ruin the game if we didn't have tea. The words slither out laced with venom so vile it would pucker my face but she says it and smiles.
vanna bonta— "Do I Have To?"
And I learned the truth from Lenny Bruce,That all my wealth won't buy me healthSo I smoke a pint of tea a day.
lenny bruce— Simon and Garfunkel's A Simple Desultory Philippic[[13]]
Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"
neil gaiman— In a widely reported post from his Twitter account (25 February 2009)
When a large part of the market for British textiles was in the colonies, a fall in the price of tea and cocoa caused unemployment in Lancashire.
joan robinson— Chapter V, Nonmonetary Models, p. 67
We was getting nowhereAnd so we had a cuppa tea
myles rudge— Song Right Said Fred (Cup of Tea)
I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture great in every thing he undertook. But I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast for luncheon for dinner for tea for supper for between meals. I like a change, occasionally.
mark twain— The Innocents Abroad, Ch. 27 (1869)
I will go upon the rock, boys, and look abroad for the savages," said Ishmael shortly after, advancing towards them wit a mien which he intended should be conciliating, at the same time that it was authoritative. "If there is nothing to fear, we will go out on the plain; the day is too good to be lost in words, like women in the towns wrangling over their tea and sugared cakes.
james fenimore cooper— The Prairie (1827)
The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.
Robertson Davies— The Girl with the Swansdown Seat/Abode of Love/1848 (1956)
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
camille paglia— On Mark Halperin’s inclusion of a lengthy quote by convicted murderer Jack Henry Abbott in his One Hundred Years of Homosexuality.
Everybody eats something But you won't eat me You won't get me on your plate Or have me over for tea Everybody lives somewhere Mud hut or igloo But what I got is the hottest spot And it's away from you
andy partridge— "Life is Good in the Greenhouse"
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
bertrand russell— Letter to C. P. Sanger, 23 December, 1929.
A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty
— Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea (1906).
Where there's tea there's hope.
— Arthur W. Pinero. Quoted in: 365 Things Every Tea Lover Should Know. Harvest House Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 0736922504, page 40.
The challenge, I think, for the tea party movement is to identify specifically, what would you do? It's not enough just to say, "Get control of spending." I think it's important for you to say, you know, "I'm willing to cut veterans' benefits," or, "I'm willing to cut Medicare or Social Security benefits," or, "I'm willing to see these taxes go up."
— Barack Obama, September 20, 2010.[2]
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
— T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", 1917
Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.
J. K. Rowling— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 27, said by Ron Weasley (2000).
tea is like the East he grows in, A great yellow Mandarin With urbanity of manner And unconsciousness of sin.
— 1914 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.
— 1914 The Flying Inn, ch.18, stanza 3. Collected as'The Song of Right and Wrong' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).
Is there no Latin word for tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.
hilaire belloc— "On Tea", On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1908)
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, and tea Are all the Human Frame requires.
hilaire belloc— "Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut off in Dreadful Agonies"
