“Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds…

“Matrons, who toss the cup, and see \ The grounds…

“Matrons, who toss the cup, and see \ The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.” ~ Charles Churchill, The Ghost (bk. I, l. 117)

Other Tea Quotes

“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…
“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…
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” ~ Henry Fielding - View Quote Details on “Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” ~…
“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,…
“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…
“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! 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…
“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…
“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea” ~ Bernard-Paul Heroux - View Quote Details on “There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot…
“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…