Tea Quotes:

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Home, Owl, Tea, Afternoon Tea, Tea Time

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Tea, Forget

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

- Adelle Davis

source: Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

topic: Party, Boston, Tea, Tea Party

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Tea, Cups, Said, Cups Of Tea

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

- Agatha Christie

topic: Tea, Everyday, Ordinary, Afternoon Tea

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Fashion, Drinking, Tea, Warrants

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Civilization, Tea, England, Derby

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Cat, Tea, Sound, Kettles, Hissing

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

- Al Swearengen

topic: Tea, Nasty, Language

Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there!

- Alan Grayson

topic: Party, People, Tea

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Peace, Grease, Tea

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

- Alexander McCall Smith

source: Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The Miracle at Speedy Motors”, p.22, Anchor

topic: Tea, Stories, Cups

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

- Alexander Pushkin

topic: Glasses, Tea, Pieces, Sweet Tea, Coffee And Tea

'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea.

- Alice Taylor

topic: Tea, May, Want

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

- Alice Walker

topic: Tea, Picnics, Literature, Teapots, Afternoon Tea

I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

- Amanda Plummer

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Careers, Tea

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

- Andrew Motion

topic: Writing, Two, Tea, Starting To Write, Mint

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

- Ann Beattie

topic: Thinking, Tea, Hollywood

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

- Ann Patchett

source: Ann Patchett (2004). “Truth and Beauty: A Friendship”

topic: Jobs, Writing, Tea, Imaginary Friend

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Giving, Tea, Cups

A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

- Anne Carson

topic: Tea, Pages, Attractive

You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Artist, Finding Yourself, Tea, Tea Ceremony

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

- Anthony Storr

topic: Sympathy, Tea, Done

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

- Antoine Rivarol

topic: Gossip, Tea, Age

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Philosophical, Tea, Conversation, Forthcoming

A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you cant beat it.

- Antonia Thomas

topic: Tea, Cups, Beats, Cant

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Morning, White, Tea, Eternal Youth

I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.

- Arjun Rampal

topic: Coffee, Black, Tea, Green Tea, Metabolism

You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

- Arjuna Ranatunga

topic: Funny, Life, Tea

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Party, Tea, Important

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Wise, Tea, May, Feasibility

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

source: 'Chips with Everything' (1962) act 1, sc. 2

topic: Baby, Hands, Tea, Damn Things, Fish And Chips

While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

- Arthur Godfrey

topic: Voice, Tea, Elation, Hotter

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

- Arthur Gray

source: Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.1, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Tea, Beverages, Comfort, Cups Of Tea

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.

- Arthur Gray

source: Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Coffee, Tea, Drink

Where there's tea, there's hope.

- Arthur Wing Pinero

topic: Tea, Sweet Tea

While there is tea, there is hope.

- Arthur Wing Pinero

source: Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1908). “The Plays of Arthur W. Pinero: Sweet Lavender”

topic: Tea, There Is Hope

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

- Ashley Jensen

topic: Years, Tea, Tonight, Five Year Plans

When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.

- Ashley Madekwe

topic: House, Tea

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

- Ashley Madekwe

topic: Water, Tea, Bleach

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

- Banana Yoshimoto

topic: Tea, Mind, Enough

I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

- Barack Obama

topic: Morning, Book, Tea

Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

- Barry Loudermilk

topic: Party, Government, Tea, Interstate, Deficit Spending

Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!

- Barry Pain

source: Barry Pain (1892). “Playthings and Parodies”, London [etc.] Cassell

topic: Girl, Tea, Want

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Rocks, Tea, Faces

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

- Beatrix Potter

topic: Mother, Taken, Tea

Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

- Beatrix Potter

topic: Hands, Fire, Tea, Hand Holding

I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.

- Ben Oakland

topic: Coffee, Tea, Java, Coffee And Tea, I Love Coffee

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

- Bernard Berenson

topic: Wine, Tea, Way

There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.

- Bernard Goldberg

source: "Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Debate Fox News and Conservative Bias". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.newsbusters.org. September 30, 2009.

topic: Cheer, Party, Tea

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

topic: Cities, Lakes, Tea, Salt Lake City

Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.

- Bill Maher

topic: Party, Tea, Cost

Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea

- Billy Bragg

topic: Men, Fire, Tea

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Men, Tea, Trying, Never Trust A Man

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

- Bob Barr

topic: Hurt, Party, Tea, Charting

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

- Bob Inglis

topic: Party, Tea, Conservative

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

- Boy George

source: "Are you sure? The 12 things that celebrities have claimed are 'better than sex'" by Rod McPhee, www.mirror.co.uk. October 26, 2013.

topic: Sex, Tea, Cups Of Tea

I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

- Brad Carson

topic: Appreciation, Self, Tea

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

- Brandi Glanville

source: Brandi Glanville, Leslie Bruce (2014). “Drinking and Tweeting: And Other Brandi Blunders”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tea, Cups Of Tea, Cups

And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea...

- Bret Easton Ellis

topic: Numbness, Tea, Imagine, Coldness

If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed were to bump into each other along the road and go have a cup of tea or whatever, I think we all know they would treat one another far different and far better than a lot of their followers would.

- Brian D. McLaren

topic: Jesus, Thinking, Tea

Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.

- Brigham Young

topic: Tea, Harm, Teapots

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

- Bruce Laingen

topic: Water, Tea, Experience, Tea Bag, Hot Water

Tea should be taken in solitude.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Taken, Solitude, Tea

Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.

- Caroline B. Cooney

source: Caroline B. Cooney (2008). “What Janie Found”, p.100, Laurel Leaf

topic: Pain, Class, Tea, Herbal Tea

The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

- Carolyn Heilbrun

topic: Jobs, Tea, Flavor, Delicate Life

I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Mother, Revenge, Tea, Jocelyn Fray, Clary Fray

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Tea, Mind, Wonderful

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

- Catherine Helen Spence

source: Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press

topic: Glasses, Scotland, Tea, Whisky, Cups Of Tea

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Country, Tea, Want

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

- Chaim Potok

source: Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tea, Afternoon Tea, Cups Of Tea, Happy Things, Tea Time

Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans!

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Tea, Cups, Miniatures, Eric Northman

England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea....

- Charles Churchill

source: Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems ...: In Two Volumes”, p.166

topic: Stars, Fate, Tea, Fortune Telling

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Giving, Tea, Cups, Muddle, Sweet Tea

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea...

- Charles Dickens

topic: Dust, Tea, Might

I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."

- Charles Lane Poor

topic: Reading, Mad, Tea

There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Coffee, Cereal, Tea, Instant Coffee

Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Flower, People, Tea, Pink Flower

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.

- China Mieville

topic: Tea, Stuff, Painting, Dissidents

This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop,

- Chris Matthews

topic: Party, People, Tea

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

topic: America, Tea, Mind, Cups Of Tea, I'm Back

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea

- Christian Lacroix

topic: Ideas, Tea, Cups Of Tea

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

- Christiane Amanpour

topic: Boys, Tea, Wanted

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

- Christine Feehan

topic: Differences, Tea, Staples

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

- Christine Lagarde

topic: Reading, Tea, Balls, Crystal Ball, Tea Leaves

We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

- Christopher Isherwood

source: Christopher Isherwood (2008). “The Berlin Stories”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

topic: Tea

Of course, with the last ads shipped and the last polls conducted, there'€™s not much to do but try to read the tea leaves. And from what Democrats are seeing, it doesn't look good. At all.

- Christopher Michael Cillizza

topic: Tea, Trying, Looks, Tea Leaves

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

- Claire McCaskill

topic: Party, Doors, Tea

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

- Clara Schumann

topic: Ice, Tea, Rooms

..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

- Clive Barker

topic: Tea, Firsts, Armageddon, Pragmatism

China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.

- Constance Spry

source: Constance Spry (1953). “A Constance Spry Anthology”

topic: Fire, Tea, Afternoon, Hyacinths

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

- Cynthia Payne

topic: Sex, Party, Tea

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

- D.T. Suzuki

topic: Space, Tea, Swallowing, Zen Proverb, Sipping

I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

- Danny Dyer

topic: Tea, Age, Jasmine

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

- Daphne du Maurier

topic: Feel Better, Men, Tea

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

- David Lee Roth

topic: Art, Glasses, Tea, Iced Tea

The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!!

- David Lee Roth

topic: Baby, People, Tea, Jack Daniels, Iced Tea

I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.

- David Oyelowo

topic: Feet, Tea, Roles, Haley, Daniel Day Lewis

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

- David Walliams

topic: Flower, Tea, Important

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

source: "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

topic: Party, Tea, Republican, Republican Party

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party,

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Party, House, Tea

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

- Delia Smith

topic: Cake, Tea, Needs, Ovens

There is only one thing that could make me near homicidal. Yeah - this is called My Proper Tea.

- Doc Brown

topic: Tea, Yeah, Homicidal

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

- Dodie Smith

topic: Real, Thinking, Tea

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

- Dodie Smith

topic: Tea, Comfort, Needed

Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.

- Dorothea Johnson

source: Dorothea Johnson (2002). “Tea and Etiquette”, p.16, Capital Books

topic: Art, Tea, Quality, Quality Time, Times With Friends

The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

source: Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press

topic: Ocean, Tea, Trying

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

- Doug Davidson

topic: Pie, Tea, Cups, Whipped Cream

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Tea, Cups Of Tea, Cups

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Missing, Tea, Important, Missing Something

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

- E. M. Forster

topic: Heart, Tea, Culture

well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat

- Eddie Mair

topic: Years, Tea, Dinner

Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.

- Edgar Smith

topic: Determination, Tea, Battle, Lawsuit

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

- Edmund Waller

source: Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.211

topic: Soul, Tea, Doe, Sweet Tea, Serene

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

- Eleanor Clift

topic: Party, Effort, Tea, Food Stamps

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Strong, Water, Tea, Green Tea, Tea Bag

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Courage, Water, Tea, Tea Bag, Hot Water

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

- Eliot Spitzer

topic: Party, Tea, Principles, Occupy Movement, Focal Point

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Men, Boston, Tea

There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.

- Elizabeth May

source: Elizabeth May (2014). “The Falconer: Book One of the Falconer Trilogy”, p.309, Chronicle Books

topic: Tea, World, Calm

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

- Emanuel Cleaver

topic: Party, Thinking, Tea

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

- Emilie Autumn

topic: Blood, Tea, Leeches

Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!

- Enid Blyton

topic: Google, Tea, Buns

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

- Eric Alterman

source: Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama”, p.156, Nation Books

topic: Party, Class, Tea, Earth Science, Science Class

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

- Ethel Merman

source: Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

topic: Kitchen, Tea, Cups, Cups Of Tea

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

- Eugene Jarecki

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Party, People, Tea, Uninformed

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

- Ezra Pound

topic: Art, Tea, Together

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

- Frances Hardinge

topic: Keys, Magic, Tea

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

topic: Tea, Cups, Used, Mug, Becky

Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

- Francine Rivers

topic: Sweet, Tea, Want, Sweet Tea

What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.

- Frank J. Prial

source: "WINE TALK; Beaujolais Presents Its Nobler Profile" by Frank J. Prial, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2000.

topic: Wine, Southern, Tea, Southern Italy, Switching

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

- Frank McCourt

topic: Nice, People, Tea, Tea Bag

Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

- Frank Muir

topic: Tea, Together, Moles

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Tea, World, Hell, Selfish World

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

topic: Tea, Cups Of Tea, Cups

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

- G. M. Trevelyan

topic: Perfection, Tea, Modern

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

source: "'Politics in Arizona Have Become Fueled by Hate…Driven by Anger': Rep. Raúl Grijalva on Shooting of Giffords". "Daily Show", www.democracynow.org. January 10, 2011.

topic: Party, Office, Tea, Tea Party Movement, Slurs

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

- Gael Garcia Bernal

topic: Broken, Tea, Add, Kettles

What did you do?” “Well, you see, there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there…” He trailed off. “Useful thing, tea,” commented Lyall thoughtfully.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Tea, Sitting, Pot

Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux was there to provide chin scratches. Madame Lefoux provided.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Cat, Tea, Scratches, Cups Of Tea

The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

- Gail Collins

topic: Party, People, Tea, Strivers, Tea Party

Parallel lines meet in eternity but Parallel lives meet for tea

- Gary Gach

topic: Life, Tea, Lines, Parallel Lines, Parallel Lives

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Men, Emotional, Tea, Opium

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

- George Gissing

topic: Drinking, Tea, Leisure, Drinking Tea, Tea Drinking

In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

- George Gissing

topic: Grandmother, Tea, Mind, Chinks, Domesticity

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

- George Harrison

topic: Tea, Records, Chaos, Tidy

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.

- George Harrison

topic: Home, Tea, Show Me

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.

- George Mikes

topic: Tea, Together, Groups

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

- George Orwell

topic: Strong, Years, Tea, Coffee And Tea, Cups Of Tea

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

- George Orwell

topic: Country, Civilization, Tea, Tea Drinking

Question your tea spoons.

- Georges Perec

topic: Tea, Spoons

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

- Gerald Durrell

source: Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins

topic: Cake, Tea, Rising, Wisps, Cushions

When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

topic: Compassion, Tea, Suffering

The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.

- Gideon Rachman

topic: Party, Political, Tea, Political Systems

I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.

- Goran Ivanisevic

topic: Thinking, Tea, Cups, Runner Up

The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't it, like, two in the morning back there?" "It's called jet lag," Ian informed him. "I'm still on London time. I don't suppose you savages have any tea in this mausoleum." "There's a diet Snapple in the fridge." Ian shuddered. "I thought not.

- Gordon Korman

topic: Morning, Two, Tea, Jet Lag, Fridges

Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them.

- Greg Mortenson

topic: People, Tea, Important

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

- Gustav Klimt

topic: Inspiring, Art, Tea

Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

- Guy Pearce

topic: Tea, Stuff, Cups

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

- Hanna Rosin

topic: Party, Issues, Tea, Social Issues

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

- Harold MacMillan

topic: Tea, Storm, Paper

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 Monro

source: Children of Love (1914) "Milk for the Cat"

topic: Cat, Eye, Tea, Purring Cats, Purring

Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves.

- Hayley Williams

topic: Tea, Neighbor

Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

- Hector Hugh Munro

topic: Healing, Tea, Finding Yourself

I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.

- Helen Mirren

topic: Tea, Bags, London, Tea Bag

Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

- Helen Simonson

source: Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.347, A&C Black

topic: Passion, Tea, Wells

Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the place of the sugar and cream which you ordinarily add.

- Heloise

source: Heloise (1963). “Heloise's Kitchen Hints”

topic: Giving, Tea, Littles, Caramel, Different Tastes

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Henry Fielding

source: 'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

topic: Love, Gossip, Tea, Sweet Tea, Sweeteners

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Tea, Scandal, Cold, Sweeteners

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

- Henry James

topic: Life, Tea, Literature, Green Tea, Optimistic Life

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Latin, Soul, Tea, Coffee And Tea, Tea Coffee

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Lunch, Tea, Breakfast

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

topic: Home, Tea, Cookies, Female Empowerment, International Women's Day

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

- Ho Chi Minh

topic: War, Years, Tea

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Love, Wine, Tea

Another tea-time, another day older.

- Ian Anderson

topic: Tea, Another Day, Tea Time

I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Tea, Needs, Threatening

The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Drinking, Doctors, Tea, Badgers, Drinking Tea

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 Gershwin

source: 1937 'They Can't Take That Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

topic: Tea, Way, Hats, Gershwin

Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea.

- Irving Caesar

source: "Tea for Two" (song) (1924)

topic: Two, Tea, Knees

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.

- Isabella Beeton

topic: Cake, Tea, Afternoon, Pastries, Afternoon Tea

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

- Ishmael Reed

topic: Party, Tea, Members, Scooters

Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Tea, Littles, Found, Fluttering

It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

- J. Maarten Troost

topic: War, College, Tea, Sparking, Grenada

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Joy, Serenity, Tea, Big Sur, Dharma Bums

He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me.

- Jacques Prevert

source: 'Dèjeuner du Matin'

topic: Coffee, White, Tea

Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.

- James Cameron

topic: Party, Leader, Tea

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

- James Joyce

topic: Mother, Water, Tea

Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?

- James M. Barrie

source: "Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels".

topic: Adventure, Tea, Firsts

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Believe, Greed, Tea, Wendy

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

- James Norwood Pratt

topic: Tea, Quiet, Thirst

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

- James Norwood Pratt

topic: Spiritual, Tea, Clarity, Refreshments, Elixir

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

- James Norwood Pratt

topic: Appreciate, Tea, Attention

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.

- James Norwood Pratt

topic: Heart, Tea, Drink

The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

- James Wolcott

topic: Party, Reality, Tea, Quaint, Pundits

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

- Jane Austen

topic: Tea

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

- Janice Dickinson

topic: Tea, Wake Up, Drink

Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing.

- Janusz Korwin-Mikke

source: Blog, April 29, 2009.

topic: Sweet, Tea, Trying, Convince Us

I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better.

- Jared Leto

topic: Coffee, Tea, Cookies

Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.

- Jason Wong

topic: Cute, Coffee, Tea, Cute Life, Coffee Cup