Brian Jones Quotes

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

China's a big tea culture.

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

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

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.

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.

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

In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

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 favourite beverage of the intellectual.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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.

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

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

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.

Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.

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

I can't live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on 'America's Next Top Model,' they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can't make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

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

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a cup of tea.'

You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.