"We are like tea bags. We don't know our real strength
until we get in hot water!"
Anonymous
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Hotel Waiter: What would you like?
George: Tea
Hotel Waiter: Earl Grey or Lapsang Souchong?
George: No, tea.
From the 1986 film Mona Lisa
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"The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort
and refinement"
Arthur Gray
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"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tea"
Honore De Balzac
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"Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth"
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"You want a tea?"
"No, I want romance. I want music. I want love and beauty"
"But not tea, eh? Amazing....."
Woody Allen: The Kugelmass Episode
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"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
Chaim Potok: The Chosen
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"I don't drink coffee, I take tea my dear."
Sting, from "Englishman in New York"
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"It snowed last year too; I made a snowman and my brother
knocked it down
and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea."
From Dylan Thomas' "A Child's Christmas in Wales"
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"I got nasty habits; I take tea at three"
Mick Jagger (c. 1945) "Live with Me"
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"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Jean Luc Picard, Star Date 41697.9
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"Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid; - thou female tongue-running,
smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose
glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life,
let me fall prostrate.
Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757) The Lady's Last Stake, Act 1, Scene 1
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"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervouse
sensibilities...will always be the favoured beverage of the intellectual."
Thomas DeQuincy (1875 -1959) Confession of an English Opium Eater
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"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754) "Love in Several Masques"
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"The first cup moistens my lips and throat;
The second cup breaks my lonliness;
The third cup searches my barren entrail but
to find therein some thousand volumes
of odd ideographs;
The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all
the wrongs of life pass out through my pores;
At the fifth cup I am purified;
The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals.
The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more!
I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves.
Where is Elysium?
Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.
Lu Tung (Chinese poet during T'ang Dynasty) "Tea Drinking"
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"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) Victorian British Prime Minister
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"Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey for the tea?"
Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915) "The Olde Vicarage, Grantchester
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Eyes are flashing, burning bright
She has the teapot in her sight
Add the sugar, add the milk
It goes down smoothly, just like silk
Stir it with her silver spoon
Serve it by the glowing moon.
Give her tea and you shall find
That now she'll have her peace of mind.
