Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?
Greg Dworkin

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
J. B. Priestley

Picture you upon my knee, just tea two and two for tea.
Irving Caesar

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller

Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.
Sen Rikyu

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

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Thomas de Quincey

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
Christian Lacroix

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
Anthony Storr

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
William Faulkner

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

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

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
Gary Snyder

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

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
Nikita Khrushchev

They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.
Jonathan Richman

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

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