“Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
“No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?" "Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?"”
Sexie (2003)
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Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Sergeant Barret and Major Richard Sharpe, p. 273
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Honor (1985)
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Source: Recipe for Salad, p. 383
Source: A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Amber (1970) Dutch born German singer, songwriter, label owner and executive producer
"Yes", from Naked; inspired by Molly Bloom's soliloquy in James Joyce's Ulysses (2002). Live performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbsGpcc0Fw
“Picture you upon my knee,
Just tea for two and two for tea”
Irving Caesar (1895–1996) American composer and lyricist
"Tea For Two" (1925).
“Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"”
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
In a widely reported post https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22Honestly,%20if%20you're%20given%20the%20choice%20between%20Armageddon%20or%20tea,%20you%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 from his Twitter account (25 February 2009) https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1250594057
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
"The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004)
“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
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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