Quotes about tea
A collection of quotes on the topic of tea.
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„Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. … You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.“
— Charlie Parker American jazz saxophonist and composer 1920 - 1955
As quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It (1955) edited by by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 379
„I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side…"
()“
— Sting English musician 1951
Source: Nothing Like the Sun
„The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.“
— Alexander McCall Smith, book The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Source: The Miracle at Speedy Motors
„Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities … will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.“
— Thomas De Quincey, book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
„There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.“
— Henry James, book The Portrait of a Lady
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
„If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.“
— William Ewart Gladstone British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom 1809 - 1898
„Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
Another quote often attributed to her without an original source in her writings, as in The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt (1996), p. 199. But once again archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
A very similar remark was attributed to Nancy Reagan, in The Observer (29 March 1981): "A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."
Variants:
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag; you can't tell how strong she is and how much to trust her until you put her in hot water.
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„You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.“
— Clive Staples Lewis Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898 - 1963
As quoted in Of This and Other Worlds (1982) by Walter Hooper, Preface, p. 9
„I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.“
— Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass; Gilbert Markham
„It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.“
— Ernest Bramah, book The Wallet of Kai Lung
The Transmutation of Ling
The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900)
„I don't much care about tea-drinking in the afternoon; in the morning the stuff Jock brings to me in bed is like that Nepenthe which the wife of Thone gave to Jove-born Helena, but in the p. m. it always makes me think of Ganges mud in which crocodiles have been coupling.“
— Kyril Bonfiglioli British art dealer 1928 - 1985
Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, After You With The Pistol (1979), Ch. 5.
„The turning point was the Tea Act and the resulting Tea Party in Boston in December 1773.“
— Bernard Bailyn, book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 118
„Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.“
— Gabrielle Giffords American politician 1970
Comment following a window being smashed at her congressional office in Arizona &mdash National Post, Shooting could subdue overheated U.S. political rhetoric, Richard Cowan, Reuters, January 9, 2011, 2011-01-10 http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Shooting+could+subdue+overheated+political+rhetoric/4082898/story.html, alternate link http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7083G120110110
„The human mind is a wanton storyteller and even more, a profligate seeker after pattern. We see faces in clouds and tortillas, fortunes in tea leaves and planetary movements. It is quite difficult to prove a real pattern as distinct from a superficial illusion.“
— Richard Dawkins, book A Devil's Chaplain
"Snake Oil"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
„Well, I flung the window open an' I shouted, "Yes, that's right Millandra – I'm goin' to Greece for the sex; sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea, an’ sex for supper." Well, she just ignored me but this little cab driver leans out an' pipes up, "That sounds like a marvellous diet, love." "It is," I shouted back, "have y' never heard of it? It's called the 'F' Plan."“
— Willy Russell, Shirley Valentine
Shirley, page 40.
Shirley Valentine (1986)
„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 English writer and clergyman 1771 - 1845
Source: Recipe for Salad, p. 383
Source: A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith
„In August 2009, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer was discussing a tea party rally in Arizona, where it's legal to carry an unconcealed weapon. She said: "A man at a pro-health care rally… wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip… There are questions about whether this has racial overtones, I mean, here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns." All that her audience was shown were a rifle and pistol strapped to a man's back. MSNBC concealed the fact that the armed man was black and did not show the interview he gave to the reporter. Brewer knowingly deceived her audience because an armed black man didn't fit the racial narrative.“
— Walter E. Williams American economist, commentator, and academic 1936
"Leftist race-baiters stir up animosity" (9 May 2012)
2010s
„We're going to get into partisan bickering because more than half of Republicans agreed with the statement that said Obama is trying to impose Islamic law on America. I mean that is a very radical thing to believe. And it's more than half of Republicans. Not tea baggers. Not radicals. The mainstream Republican people.“
— Bill Maher American stand-up comedian 1956
Larry King Live interview (2010)