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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

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SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born b...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Thank the heavens for tea. How did people ever come together without it?
JEANNIE LIN Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?

Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine wi...
MARISSA MEYER I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
S. T. JOSHI What kind of tea do you want?"
"There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?"
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BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Why I would sell the whole world for a single kopek, just so that nobody would bother me. Should the...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I hire tea by the tea bag.
MARTIN AMIS Tea is tea, nothing can compete my tea
IRFA ADAM For the last 100 years, curators sat down to drink tea, but they did not do their jobs, ... How many...
ZAHI HAWASS For the last 100 years, curators sat down to drink tea, but they did not do their jobs. How many art...
ZAHI HAWASS How old did someone have to be before they could be put to use to make tea?
JENNY OLIVER I think just a cup of tea...' There was something to be said for tea and a comfortable chat about cr...
BARBARA PYM Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.
KATE HARPER Dearly beloved – dearly revered – dearly discovered – dearly feared – all present – all po...
DHARLENE MARIE FAHL Not tea but blood!
ANN LECKIE Ravel said. “And I order people around really well. This morning, Tipstaff came over with a cup of...
DEREK LANDY If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it c...
MATT SMITH I am fine, I am fine ... They gave me cigarettes and tea.
ALESSANDRO BERNARDINI Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see the...
A.A. MILNE I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
ROB LOWE The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
BART STUPAK The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim sa...
ILONA ANDREWS Putting a damp spoon back in the bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle. And I did ...
ALAN PARTRIDGE I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.
ZOLA BUDD Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.
CASSANDRA CLARE Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea ...
RICK SANTELLI Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
AGATHA CHRISTIE It is not a cold day, but she looks warmed by the tea. Tea has that effect on people. I love watchin...
HANNAH TUNNICLIFFE Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and two for tea
IRVING CAESAR Tea for two, and two for tea, Me for you, and you for me.
IRVING CEASER But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
JANE AUSTEN Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.
IRVING CAESAR Tea is awesome, tea is great! Drink it early, drink it late!
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN I'm not sure how I'd survive without English Breakfast tea. Even in the Caribbean, I must dr...
RICHARD BRANSON Astonishing how tea opens the ears.
MICHELLE FRANKLIN He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This ...
RACHEL CAINE Not for all the tea in China
PROVERB As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? The...
APRILYNNE PIKE Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray...
LEWIS CARROLL Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in ...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?
NEIL GAIMAN The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night - a reverse waterfall - like when ...
JOE DUNTHORNE I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
BOY GEORGE I will have some tea fetched. That is your society does drink tea? Always, Irene said.
GENEVIEVE COGMAN When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.
JAMES JOYCE (TEA) will not leave the office without that check in their hand.
FRANCES JONES If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I...
MAHATMA GANDHI Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
KENNETH GRAHAME For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.
BILL DRUMMOND The art of tea, whichever way you drink it, or whichever country you are from, has one underlining t...
NICOLA SALTER The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunch...
PAULA DEEN Time For Tea.
TILLIE COLE I do not want Michaelangelo for breakfast - but for luncheon - for dinner - for tea - for supper - f...
MARK TWAIN That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I s...
SOPHIE DIVRY Tea! That's all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just t...
RUSSELL T. DAVIES I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industr...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
CARLY FIORINA Because he was English and that's what the English do under stress: they drink tea.
CYNTHIA HAND I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea...
WILL SELF I like tea so much that I’m considering changing my name to Bergamot so that I can exist in a perp...
FENNEL HUDSON The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its de...
LAFCADIO HEARN And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.
JONAH WINTER I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
BERNARD BERENSON Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a ba...
FRANK MCCOURT Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-...
LEWIS CARROLL The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very...
PATRICK MURPHY I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.
MOBY I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Do ghosts drink tea?

They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of t...
RODDY DOYLE nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.
SHANA ABE Tea was such a comfort.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too.
MONICA MILLNER I love America for its bourgeois comfort. If I was as heavily in debt as they are, I wouldn't be dri...
VANN CHOW Brewing a good cuppa is something not everyone can do, and I loathe bad tea.
ROD STEWART I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work.

Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in ...
LEO TOLSTOY I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.
LU T'UNG I don't want tea, I want justice!
ALLY CARTER I like the pause that tea allows.
WARIS AHLUWALIA My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker....
CHELSEA CLINTON No one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don'...
FRANK MCCOURT a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the inf...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
SAMUEL JOHNSON When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I...
CORY BOOKER Tea and cake or death...students with beards 'tea and cake or death, tea and cake or death...little ...
EDDIE IZZARD Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked ou...
RACHEL HAWKINS There's always time for tea.
SEANAN MCGUIRE He wished he knew how to make tea, wished he even had some to try with. That was what Miss June-bug ...
LINDA LAEL MILLER I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.
DARIUS RUCKER The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.
JIM WEBB He loved happiness like I love tea.
EUDORA WELTY With melted snow I boil fragrant tea.
MENCIUS It tastes better because it's brewed with the whole leaf. Tea bags are filled with the remainder of ...
CATHY PERNOCK Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's not my cup of tea.
WES STUDI That's not my cup of tea.
KATHY NAJIMY Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough
INGRID BERGMAN tea!’ exclaimed
CHRIS BRADFORD Afternoon tea needn’t stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowshi...
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SYDNEY BRENNER We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you k...
SYDNEY POLLACK I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begi...
SYDNEY BRENNER Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've go...
SYDNEY POLLACK What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn'...
SYDNEY POLLACK It's a standard 365-day a year thing. You have to be vigilant on animal cruelty.
SYDNEY WHITE Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germ...
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