Tea Quotes - Page 13

• well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat

  Eddie Mair

  Years, Dinner, Treats

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• Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.

  Arthur Gray

  Coffee, Drink, Reason

  Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27.

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• An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Girl, Business, Party

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• Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Nice, Party

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, m.thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Ideas, Space

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books

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• Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

  Edith Wharton

  Upset, Inanimate Objects, Cups

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.172, Edith Wharton

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• Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

  Rose Macaulay

  Music, Different, Kind

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• Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, College, Cake

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.198, Open Road Media

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• I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

  Norman Douglas

  Drinking, Reading, Wish

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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• It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fashion, Drinking, United States

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Two, Mystery Novels

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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• Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

  Julia Ward Howe

  Life Is Like, Age, Sugar

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• Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter.

  Groucho Marx

  Wisdom, Two, Forever

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• Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Two, Giving

  Craig Claiborne (1994). “Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia”, Outlet

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• I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

  Paul O'Grady

  Food, Cooking, Breakfast

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• The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, soldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!

  Florence King

  Running, Attitude, Nice

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• Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Feel Better, Men, Cups

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Hungry Hill”, p.320, Hachette UK

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• [On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

  Princess Margaret

  Zoos, Usual, Events

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• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Husband, Cancer, Men

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• Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the place of the sugar and cream which you ordinarily add.

  Heloise

  Giving, Taste, Cups

  Heloise (1963). “Heloise's Kitchen Hints”

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• I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

  Niger Innis

  Party, Years, Niger

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• I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties.

  Michael Enzi

  Party, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living. And each part, each moment of living, is meaningful. You just have to be there; otherwise, who is going to experience the meaning? People go on drinking tea, but they never are there; their minds are wandering all over the world.

  Rajneesh

  Meaningful, Morning, Drinking

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• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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