Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many people enjoy.

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• 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.
  • James Boswell, Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763. James Boswell, Frederick Albert Pottle. Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0300093012, page 189.

• Matrons, who toss the cup, and see
  The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.
  • Charles Churchill, The Ghost (1763), Book I, line 117.

• 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, The Lady's Last Stake (1707), Act I, scene 1.

• 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.
  • William Cobbett, Cottage Economy (1821).

• 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.
  • William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book IV, line 36.

• 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.
  • Samuel Johnson, Essay on tea (1757). Quoted in: Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition. Victor R. Preedy, Ronald Ross Watson, Colin R. Martin. Springer, 2011. ISBN: 0387922709, p. 628.

• A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty
  • Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea (1906).

• You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
  • C.S. Lewis, reported in Little Giant Encyclopedia: Tea Leaf Reading Jacky Sach. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2008. ISBN: 1402756372, p. 102.

• Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country."
  • George Orwell, Smothered under journalism: 1946. Works of George Orwell, Volumen 18, George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison. Secker & Warburg, 1998, ISBN: 0436203774.

• Where there's tea there's hope.
  • Arthur W. Pinero. Quoted in: 365 Things Every Tea Lover Should Know. Harvest House Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 0736922504, page 40.

• Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away,
  And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea.
  • Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto I.

• Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
  Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
  • Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto III, line 7.

• Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
  • Chaim Potok. Quoted in: 99 Things to Do Between Here and Heaven. Kathleen Long Bostrom, Peter Graystone. Westminster John Knox Press, 2009. ISBN: 0664233244, page 61.

• 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 (1855), Vol. I. P. 383.

• Tea does our fancy aid,
  Repress those vapours which the head invade
  And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
  • Edmund Waller, Of Tea; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 778.

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• The entire British Empire was built on cups of tea ... and if you think I'm going to war without one, mate, you're mistaken.
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

• Computer... Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
  • Jean-Luc Picard ^{[citation needed]}

• If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you.
  • William Gladstone ^{[citation needed]}

• Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
  • Henry Fielding ^{[citation needed]}

• A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.
  • Chinese proverb

• Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.
  • Chinese proverb

• Rather three days without food than a day without tea.
  • Chinese proverb

• Picture you upon my knee,
  Just tea for two and two for tea.
  • Irving Caesar, Tea for Two.

• Bring me a cup of tea and 'Times'.
  • Queen Victoria's first command upon the throne ^{[citation needed]}

• Tea pot is on, the cups are waiting, Favorite chairs anticipating, No matter what I have to do, My friend there's always time for you.
  • Unknown ^{[citation needed]}

• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
  • Lewis Carroll ^{[citation needed]}

• Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss.
  • Christine Hanrahan ^{[citation needed]}

• Women are like tea bags, they don't know how strong they are until they get into hot water.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt ^{[citation needed]}

• A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
  • Nancy Reagan. ^{[citation needed]}

• The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.
  • Arthur Gray in The Little Tea Book (1903).

• To an Englishman, tea is of far greater importance than toilet paper.
  • — anon. ^{[citation needed]}

• There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.
  • Bernard-Paul Heroux. ^{[citation needed]}

• Tea in Iran has the role of wine in France .~Rose-Marie Kivijärvi, in the iranian documentary Tea and coffee society (2009).

• Of course, Abu Latif in Tea house had no intention of selling something. He Drink last cup of Arabic tea...and farewell with the golden dome. ~ In town cannot find a doctor (Personal Blog) by Jamal Naserizadeh (Jamal Nazareth).

External links

• George Orwell: A Nice Cup of Tea An essay by author George Orwell describing his own methods of making tea.
• Douglas Adams' humorous article on tea