I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?And is there honey still for tea?
Picture you upon my knee,Just me for you and you for me, alone!
Matrons, who toss the cup, and seeThe grounds of fate in grounds of tea.
Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, * * * thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities.
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
In English society while there is tea there is hope.
Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away,And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea.
Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Tea does our fancy aid,And keeps that palace of the soul serene.