Sweet Tea Quotes

• Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Sweet, Horse

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• Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really. It's culture in a glass.

  Allison Glock

  Sweet, Wine, Mean

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Gossip, Tea

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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• The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

  Paula Deen

  Sweet, Giving Up, Drinking

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• It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Sweet, Dog, New York

  "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

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  You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Long

  "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

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• Where there's tea, there's hope.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Tea

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• Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

  Henry James

  Life, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

  1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

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• Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Glasses, Tea, Pieces

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• Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

  Sydney Smith

  Tea, Thank God, World

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.436

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• Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

  Queen Victoria

  Tea, Cups, Cups Of Tea

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• Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tea Drinking, People, Tea Party

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

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• The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Country, Light, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.56, Random House

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• Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

  Noel Coward

  Country, Tea

  Noel Coward (1927). “Home Chat”

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• Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

  George Orwell

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Smothered under journalism: 1946”

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• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul, Tea, Doe

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.211

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• My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Giving, Tea, Cups

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy”, p.14, Booklassic

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• I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

  Sydney Smith

  Tea, Creation, Coffee And Tea

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• 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

  Tea, Week, Made

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4452, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

  Francine Rivers

  Sweet, Tea, Want

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• The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; 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 Tong

  Sweet, Loneliness, Wind

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• I had never been to Texas. Id been through Texas, but Im so glad to be back in a place thats not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, its rich and saturated in American-ness.

  Kelli Giddish

  Sweet, New York, Texas

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