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Quotations involving Tea All the following quotations have a reference to tea and are found in literature all over the world. Most of them are well known and we make little claim to researching deep and long into the night to find them. However, that sounds like a good way to spend time to me, especially if armed with a nice cuppa. If any one out there finds any more, please send them in via e-mail. That goes for any of the other subjects in this website too – you can quote me on that!
"Love
and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
"Tea
is drunk to forget the din of the world."
"Strange
how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude
and the pleasures of company."
"Each
cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage."
"Tea
had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a
land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness;
of grey skies and harsh winds; of strong nerved , stout-purposed,
slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes
and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the
bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea."
"I
always fear that creation will expire before teatime."
"Drinking
a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary."
"There
is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea."
"I
am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty years
diluted his meals only with the infusion of this fascinating plant;
whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the
evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes
the evening."
"Tea
is a cup of life."
"I
am glad I was not born before tea. "
"The
perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right."
"There
is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by
a nice cup of tea."
"If
you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will
cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited,
it will calm you."
"As
long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, it's fine with
me."
"Bread
and water can so easily be toast and tea."
"Is
there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I
would have let the vulgar stuff alone."
"There
are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to
the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
"Another
novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered
to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite
nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate
enjoyment."
"The
mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose."
"Wouldn’t
it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t drink
tea?"
"What
part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly
plant was introduced among us. Why myriads of women have cried over
it, to be sure! What sickbeds it has smoked by! What fevered lips
have received refreshment from it! Nature meant very kindly by women
when she made the tea plant; and with a little thought, what a series
of pictures and groups the fancy may conjure up and assemble round
the teapot and cup.
"Tea
should be taken in solitude."
"If
man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and
beauty."
"
Tea is liquid wisdom. "
"While
there's tea there's hope."
"Find
yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about
hundreds of things. SakiTea to the English is really a picnic indoors."
"Drink
your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the
world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the
future."
"Tea's
proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute
the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use
abstinence."
"Our
trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge
of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats."
"Tea...is
a religion of the art of life."
"All
true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little
stronger with each year that passes."
"A
'proper tea' is much nicer than a 'very nearly tea',
which is one you forget about afterwards."
"The
first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second cup breaks my
loneliness. The third cup searches my barren entrails only to find
therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup
raises a slight perspiration - all the wrongs of life pass out through
my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified. The sixth cup calls me
to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup - ah, but I could
take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises
in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze
and waft away thither."
"The
best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar
horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like
a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr,
and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain."
"Stands
the church clock at ten to three?
"As
the centerpiece of a cherished ritual, it's a talisman against the
chill of winter, a respite from the ho-hum routine of the day."
"Remember
the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it
still sings!
"Tea
is instant wisdom - just add water!"
"Never
trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't
try it on."
"You
can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to
suit me."
"Bring
me a cup of tea and 'The Times'.”
"Teaism
is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid
facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the
mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order."
"Come,
oh come, ye tea-thirsty restless ones, the kettle boils, bubbles
and sings musically."
"If
two women should pour from the same pot, one of them will have a
baby within a year."
"Two
teaspoons accidentally placed together on a saucer, points to a
wedding or a pregnancy."
"My
dear, if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a
head I should better understand your affairs."
"Wouldn’t
it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t drink
tea?"
"The
spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement."
"Tea!
thou soft, thou sober sage and venerable liquid... thou female tongue-running,
smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose
glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life. –
Let me fall prostrate."
"Enjoy
life sip by sip, not gulp by gulp."
"Tea
– the cups that cheer but not inebriate."
"I
am in no way interested in immortality,
"One
sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight beyond the
bliss of dreams.
...for tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in
their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking,
and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant,
will always be the favoured beverage of the intellectual...
"Surely
every one is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry
fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair
tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies
to the floor, whist the wind and rain are raging audibly without."
W.H Auden • Barry Pain • William Cowper • Rudyard Kipling • Steam
rises from a cup of tea
•
• I'M A LITTLE TEA POT I'm
a little teapot, short and stout. |
