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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.  ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"


Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.  ~T'ien Yiheng


There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims


Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.  ~Author Unknown


Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.  ~Catherine Douzel


I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.  ~Sydney Smith


Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.  ~Chinese Proverb


There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.  ~Bernard-Paul Heroux


Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.  ~Author Unknown


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.  ~Gladstone, 1865


We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
~Rudyard Kipling


Is there no Latin word for Tea?  Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.  ~Hilaire Belloc


Tea is a cup of life.  ~Author Unknown


There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.  ~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady


Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.  ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste


The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.  ~George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft


Tea should be taken in solitude.  ~C.S. Lewis


If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.  ~Japanese Proverb


Tea is liquid wisdom.  ~Anonymous


Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you.  Now tell me about hundreds of things.  ~Saki


Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.  ~Alice Walker


Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.  ~Honoré de Balzac


Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.  ~Thich Nat Hahn


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

O' peppermint tea -
two delights per sip
as steamy hot as passion
cool as a wintry lake dip
~Astrid Alauda


Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage - leave sagacity to the autumn!  ~Linda Solegato