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Tea Quotes

TEA I like pouring your tea, lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it up, so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup. Or when you’re away, or at work, I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip, as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips. I like the questions – sugar? – milk? – and the answers I don’t know by heart, yet, for I see your soul in your eyes, and I forget. Jasmine, Gunpowder, Assam, Earl Grey, Ceylon, I love tea’s names. Which tea would you like? I say but it’s... Carol Ann Duffy
tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, "I never quite understand why English people like teas so. Graham Greene
Agatha Christie quote: "Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!"
Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea! Agatha Christie
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."(Essay on Tea, 1757.) Samuel Johnson
Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know. Sen Rikyu
Ishmael Reed quote: "Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters."
Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters. Ishmael Reed
Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties. Confucius
Thomas Love Peacock quote: "Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly..."
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas. Thomas Love Peacock
Louise Bogan quote: "Tea instead of gin will warm the heart."
Tea instead of gin will warm the heart. Louise Bogan
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her."
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her. Zora Neale Hurston
Edna St. Vincent Millay quote: "Tea was sucha comfort."
Tea was sucha comfort. Edna St. Vincent Millay
George Orwell quote: "Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country."
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country. George Orwell
Lao Tzu quote: "Tea is the elixir of life."
Tea is the elixir of life. Lao Tzu
Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage and venerable liquid ... to whose glorious insipidity, I owe the happiest moments of my life, let me fall prostrate. Colley Cibber
Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl. Gerald Durrell

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