Thomas De Quincey Quotes

China's a big tea culture.

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

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.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

Tea has always been a big thing in my life. And I'm not talking about Liptons with lemon or iced tea, or any of that nonsense. Has to be hot PG Tips with milk.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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

I like to have my cup of green tea.

I am a tea connoisseur and my idea of absolute heaven is a tea shop.

I always take a teapot with me on tour. I suppose it's only natural that I've just written a song called 'Where Would We Be Without Tea?'

I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

There's something amazing about tea. It's good before a meal, after a meal, when drunk, when taking drugs, while playing football and after being called a poof in the street.

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

I don't t drink coffee, but I'm a tea addict.

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you can't beat it.

We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?