Tea Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

9 Tea Quotes
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“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.”
James Boswell Quotes
“A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.”
Irving Caesar Quotes
Source: Tea for Two, a song
“Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: The Ghost (bk. I, l. 117)
“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.”
Colley Cibber Quotes
Source: Lady's Last Stake (act I, sc. 1)
“Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.”
William Cowper Quotes
Source: Task (bk. IV, l. 36)
“Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Rape of the Lock (canto III, l. 7)
“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 Quotes
Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. I, p. 383)
“Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.”
Edmund Waller Quotes
Source: Of Tea