Tea quotations

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

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky99

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

- Dodie Smith99

◆ Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with imaginary weapons, and so forth. But in Miss Penelope Lumley's day, it was universally understood that there is nothing like a nice cup of tea to settle one's nerves in the aftermath of an adventure- a practice many would find well worth reviving.

- Maryrose Wood98

◆ With melted snow I boil fragrant tea.

- Mencius98

◆ For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.

- Bill Drummond98

◆ A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind.

- John Blofeld98

◆ Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

- Rabindranath Tagore98

◆ So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

- Thomas Jefferson98

◆ There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe -- the only lady private detective in Botwana -- brewed tea. And three mugs -- one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need?

- Alexander McCall Smith98

◆ 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. Milne98

◆ Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

- Nicole Krauss98

◆ In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.

- Kakuzō Okakura98

◆ I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.

- Paul Colman98

◆ Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.

- Daphne du Maurier98

◆ She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.

- Roddy Doyle98