“The British Empire was built on cups of tea, and…

“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

Other Tea Quotes

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” ~ Henry Fielding - View Quote Details on “Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” ~…
“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…
“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…
“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.” ~ James Boswell - View Quote Details on “I am so fond of tea that I could write…
“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’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 woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” ~ Nancy Reagan - View Quote Details on “A woman is like a tea bag, you can not…
“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…
“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…
“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…