Tea Quotes
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Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.
John Travolta
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My children have very little interest in my work. The most important question they have for me is, 'What's for tea?'
Maria Doyle Kennedy
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When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
Sarah Zettel
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It's always a challenge to shoot a period film and not have it look like you hit the tea stain button in post.
Rachel Morrison
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I use a lot of natural products, I get facials, and I drink a lot of detox tea.
Jerry Hall
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The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.
Okakura Kakuzo
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I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.
Joanna Lumley
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Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; 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 thus, and … adore thee.
Colley Cibber
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So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.
Bob Inglis
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What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.
Chrystia Freeland
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I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.
Douglas Rushkoff
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My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.
Martha Stewart
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An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
George Carey
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In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
John Osborne
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Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.
Rachel Hawkins
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When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.
Laurie Colwin
