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."

(Essay on Tea, 1757.)

a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Coffee is not my cup of tea

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night - a reverse waterfall - like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard.