“I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an…

“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).

Other Tea Quotes

“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…
“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…
“Women are like tea bags, they don’t know how strong they are until they get into hot water.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt - View Quote Details on “Women are like tea bags, they don’t know how strong…
“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…
“Matrons, who toss the cup, and see \ The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.” ~ Charles Churchill, The Ghost (bk. I, l. 117) - View Quote Details on “Matrons, who toss the cup, and see \ The grounds…
“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!…
“The British Empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think i’m going into battle without one, you’re sorely mistaken!” — Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - View Quote Details on “The British Empire was built on cups of tea, and…
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me” ~ C.S. Lewis - View Quote Details on “You can never get a cup of tea large enough…
“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…
“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) - View Quote Details on “Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, / Dost…