“Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, / Dost…

“Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take–and sometimes tea.” ~ Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (canto III, l. 7)

Other Tea Quotes

“If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you.” ~ William Gladstone - View Quote Details on “If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you…
“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, Lady Holland’s Memoir (vol. I, p. 383) - View Quote Details on “Thank God for tea! What would the world do without…
“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.” ~ Samuel Johnson - View Quote Details on “Tea’s proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax…
“A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.” ~ Chinese proverb - View Quote Details on “A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot…
“Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you’re at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky” ~ Lewis Carroll - View Quote Details on “Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you’re at!…
“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.” ~ George Orwell - View Quote Details on “Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in…
“I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.” — William Cobbett in Cottage Economy (1821). - View Quote Details on “I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an…
“Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life’s exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss.” ~ Christine Hanrahan - View Quote Details on “Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life’s exquisite pleasures…
“Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,… thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.” ~ Colley Cibber, Lady’s Last Stake (act I, sc. 1) - View Quote Details on “Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,… thou…
“Picture you upon my knee, / Just tea for two and two for tea.” ~ Irving Caesar, Tea for Two - View Quote Details on “Picture you upon my knee, / Just tea for two…