“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” ~…

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” ~ Henry Fielding

Other Tea Quotes

“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…
“Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away, / And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea.” - Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (canto I) - View Quote Details on “Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away, / And sip,…
“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…
“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!…
“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…
“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’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…
“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…
“Tea does our fancy aid, / Repress those vapours which the head invade / And keeps that palace of the soul serene.” ~ Edmund Waller, Of Tea - View Quote Details on “Tea does our fancy aid, / Repress those vapours which…