Famous Tea Quotes

We were talking around the office here at UKVending and trying to outdo each other with famous sayings and quotes about beverages the other day. We know how to have a good time at work! This led us to thinking what pearls of wisdom there are in some of these. Therefore this blog is going to be made up of the famous talking famously about their love of the infusion we call tea:

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

“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.

“My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I’m not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.” Chelsea Clinton.

“I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There’s something in the milk. They must have special cows.” Gail Carriger.

“I got nasty habits; I have tea at three.” Mick Jagger

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

“Where there’s tea there’s hope.” Arthur Wing Pinero.

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

We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven’t had any tea for a week…
The bottom is out of the Universe

Rudyard Kipling

“I would rather have a cup of tea than sex”. Boy George

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on.” Billy Connolly“