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
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James— 1881The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.
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
"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.
For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, nor take her tea without a stratagem.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire VI, line 187.
You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.
neil gaiman
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).
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.
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!
— 1945 New Bats in Old Belfries,'A Subaltern's Love-Song'.
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? 156
— 1915 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.
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.
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— 2003 In the Daily Telegraph,19 Apr.
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)
One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?"
john bartholomew gough— P. 17. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Well, I flung the window open an' I shouted, "Yes, that's right Millandra – I'm goin' to Greece for the sex; sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea, an’ sex for supper." Well, she just ignored me but this little cab driver leans out an' pipes up, "That sounds like a marvellous diet, love." "It is," I shouted back, "have y' never heard of it? It's called the 'F' Plan."
willy russell— Shirley Valentine, said by Shirley (1986, page 40)
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)
The British male has no interest in women. You could get all your clothes off and lie on the sofa and go "Come and get me baby" and they go, "Wanna cuppa tea?"
alice evans— John Parry article quoting an Evans interview done for The Sunday Times in The Argus July 2002 "Think of it this way"
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.
Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry: we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Letter to Maria Gisborne (1820).
Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take and sometimes tea.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto III, line 7.
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).
What is abnormal is that I am normal. 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, After being asked "What does it take to be normal again, after having your humanity stripped away by the Nazis?" in an interview in O : The Oprah Magazine Nov. 2000.
The GOP is trying to co-opt the tea Party. That is one of the reasons I did what I did. I don't see a difference between Democrats and Republicans.
scott ashjian— Vogel, Ed (April 16, 2010). "Ruling allows Ashjian to run on Tea Party of Nevada ticket". Las Vegas Review-Journal: p. 5B.
Jon Scott Ashjian ... recently made a splash in news reports and Internet blogs by creating a third party, the tea Party of Nevada, a group dedicating itself to the popular conservative movement.
scott ashjian— Jourdan, Kristi (March 8, 2010). "Tea Party hopeful - gives voters third choice". Las Vegas Review-Journal: p. 1B.
tea is one of the mainstays of civilization in this country.
george orwell— George Orwell, Smothered under journalism: 1946. Works of George Orwell, Volume 18, George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison. Secker & Warburg, 1998, ISBN: 0436203774.
