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.
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
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.
tea for two, and two for tea. 183
Irving Caesar— 1924 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).
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— 1986 An Insular Possession, ch.4.
I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!
bob hope— During a radio broadcast recorded in the UK. (During a broadcast in the Soviet Union, Bob re-used the first section, replacing 'England' with 'Russia' and 'cup of tea' with 'Bowl of Borscht')
— Audio recording of radio broadcast.
Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying, 'Oh, Ooh, basically a star is a pretty simple thing.' And from the back of the room was heard the voice of R. O. Redman, saying, 'Well, Fred, you'd look pretty simple too, from ten parsecs!'
fred hoyle— John Faulkner, in his contribution, Red giants: then and now, to The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle, 2005.
Already an old man, he [Samuel Johnson] ventured on his Highland tour; and his heart, bound with triple brass, did not recoil before twenty-seven individual cups of tea.
Robert Louis Stevenson— 314.
And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said…"Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.
Arnold Wesker— Chips with Everything, Act 1 (1962)
She began to speak, but waited a moment for the maid to clear away the tea. In the waning light her room seemed gentle and grey, and there hung about it an odour (I do not write ‘the odour’) of Roman Catholicism, which is assuredly among the gracious things of the world. It was the room of a woman who had found time to be good to herself as well as to others; who had brought forth fruit, spiritual and temporal; who had borne a mysterious tragedy not only with patience but actually with joy.
e. m. forster— The rock
She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.
Henry James— Washington Square, ch. XV
By the look of you, Nynaeve, I could almost think you were angry, but I know you have such a sweet disposition people ask you to dabble your fingers in their tea.
robert jordan— Thom Merrilin to Nynaeve al'Meara
Bring tea for the Tillerman, Steak for the sun, Wine for the women who made the rain come, Seagulls sing your hearts away ‘Cause while the sinners sin, the children play
cat stevens— Tea For The Tillerman
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 (November 2000)
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
sydney smith— Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Vol. I. P. 383.
One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.
— Morrissey, interviewed for Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea (2013), BBC Televison
I would * * * earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 10.
Don't bring me any tea. Thank you. Good night, darling.
Martha Dobie— The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman. Said to Karen Wright as she exits. The two women, who run a girls' school, have been accused of being lesbians by a vindictive student. Martha comes to realize she has had romantic feelings for Karen all along and, seeing how the scandal has ruined both their lives, shoots herself off-stage.
Both the Republican and tea Party nominees are listed side by side on the Nevada ballot and, ironically, the difference in the race could be the handful of points secured by the tea Party candidate Scott Ashjian, at the expense of Republican Sharron Angle.
scott ashjian— David Paleologos — reported in Drake, Bruce (October 13, 2010). "Scott Ashjian's Tea Party Candidacy Still a Factor in Nevada Senate Contest". Politics Daily (AOL News). Retrieved on 2010-10-14.
The turning point was the tea Act and the resulting tea Party in Boston in December 1773.
bernard bailyn— Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 118
tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller— Edmund Waller, Of Tea; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 778.
People ask me if I'm the father of the tea Party movement. I was the spark [...] that started it. If being the lightning rod that started the tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.
— Rick Santelli, Chicago Sun Times interview, September 19, 2010. [1]
