Quotes and Sayings About Tea

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

#Home #Owl #Tea

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

#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

#Party #Boston #Tea

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

#Tea #Cups #Said

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
-- Agatha Christie

#Tea #Everyday #Ordinary

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

#Fashion #Drinking #Tea

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

#Civilization #Tea #England

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

#Cat #Tea #Sound

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
-- Al Swearengen

#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

#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

#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

#Tea #Stories #Cups

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

#Glasses #Tea #Pieces

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

#Tea #May #Want

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
-- Alice Walker

#Tea #Picnics #Literature

Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea
-- Allison Glock

#Crazy #Issues #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

#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

#Writing #Two #Tea

I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.
-- Andy Weir

#Water #Tea #Hot

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

#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

#Jobs #Writing #Tea

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

#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

#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

#Artist #Finding Yourself #Tea

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

#Sympathy #Tea #Done

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

#Gossip #Tea #Age

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Weather #Tea #Today

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

#Philosophical #Tea #Conversation

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

#Tea #Cups #Beats

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

#Morning #White #Tea