Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Tea Quotes

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~ Author Unknown

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~ Chinese Proverb

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. ~ Bernard-Paul Heroux

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. ~ Gladstone, 1865

We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
~ Rudyard Kipling

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ~ Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on. ~ Billy Connolly

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~ C.S. Lewis

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervouse sensibilities...will always be the favored beverage of the intellectual. ~ Thomas DeQuincy (1875-1959) Confession of an English Opium Eater