Category: Teaisms
If you are cold . . .
If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you. William Gladstone (1809-1898)
I believe it is customary . . .
I believe it is customary in polite society to take some slight refreshment at five o’clock. Oscar Wilde
For tea, though ridiculed . . .
For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favored beverage of the intellectual. Thomas De Quincey
Ancient Chinese saying
Better to be deprived of food for three days than of tea for one. Ancient Chinese saying.
A hardened and shameless tea drinker
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 muses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning. Self-description by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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