Tea Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Strong, Woman, Put

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis

Long, Book, Enough

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln

Coffee, Bring, Please

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
Audrey Hepburn

Life, Nobody, Needs

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau

Women, Gossip, Old

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Sidney Sheldon

Woman, Become, Another

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
Colin Powell

American, Touch, Actually

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
Elie Wiesel

Life, Love, Beautiful

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.
Bill Maher

Hate, Black, Won

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.
Janeane Garofalo

History, Black, Racism

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
William J. Clinton

Good, Power, Government

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

English, Picnic, Indoors

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
Billy Connolly

Trust, Alone, Try

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
Jim Jarmusch

Cool, Beautiful, Friends

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles Lamb

Long, Book, Read

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James

Life, Few, Known

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings

Old, Scandal, Maids

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
Mick Jagger

Three, Nasty, Habits

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve

End, Ancient, Scandal

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound

Art, Someone, Together

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi

Hope, Enjoy, Basically

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy Carter

Government, Pretty, Same

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
Rand Paul

Government, Words, Party

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?
Tori Amos

Good, Mother, Play

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.
Jimmy Carter

Again, Effort, Actually

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding

Love, Best, Scandal

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.
Newt Gingrich

Why, Around, Party

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
Clara Schumann

Grow, Room, Grows

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
Marco Rubio

History, Greatest, Political

As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.
Kristin Chenoweth

Important, Remember, Healing

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