Posts Tagged “tea”

  • A fool in a hurry drinks tea with a fork. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • A man without a mustache is like a cup of tea without sugar. ~ English Proverb
  • Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold looks and cold words aren’t. ~ Japanese Proverb
  • Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things. ~ Chaim Potok
  • Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. ~ Jaffar Hussein
  • If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.~ Abraham Lincoln
  • I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. ~ Mick Jagger
  • Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. ~ Hilaire Belloc
  • It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.~ Agnes Repplier
  • I would rather have a cup of tea than sex. ~ Boy George
  • Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough. ~ Author Unknown
  • Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~ Henry Fielding
  • Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.~ Josh Billings
  • Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? ~ T. S. Eliot
  • Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.~ Thomas De Quincey
  • Tea pot is on, the cups are waiting, Favorite chairs anticipating, No matter what I have to do, My friend there’s always time for you.~ Author Unknown
  • Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ~ Alice Walker
  • Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
  • There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ~ Henry James
  • The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit. ~ George Mikes
  • Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts. ~ John Stuart Blackie
  • Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
  • You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~ C. S. Lewis
  • You can live with tea and cold rice but not with cold words. ~ Chinese Proverb


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