Tea Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Tea


Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. Churchill—The Ghost. Bk. I. L. 117.	1
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. Colley Cibber—Lady’s Last Stake. Act I. Sc. 1.	2
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Cowper—Task. Bk. IV. L. 36.	3
Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea. Pope—Rape of the Lock. Canto III. L. 7.	4
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Sydney Smith—Lady Holland’s Memoir. Vol. I. P. 383.	5
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. Edmund Waller—Of Tea.	6