(277 quotes found)
“All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter”
Joseph Addison
“Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal”
Josh Billings
“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”
Alice Walker
“Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate”
Colley Cibber
“If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty”
Japanese Proverb
“The pleasures of afternoon tea run like a trickle of honey through English literature from Rupert Brooke's wistful lines on the Old Vicarage at Grantchester to Miss Marple, calmly dissecting a case over tea cakes at a seaside hotel.”
Stan Hey
“Drinking tea quenches thirst, relieves indigestion, clears the throat, reduces sleepiness, soothes waterway, brightens eyesight, promotes thinking, eliminates anguish and cuts down grease. One cannot live a day without tea.”
Tsien Tsun Nien
“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”
Yoshio Taniguchi
“The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share”
Alexandra Stoddard
“We live in stirring times - tea-stirring times.”
Christopher Isherwood
