"Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea."

"[tearfully] Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before…"

"One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed."

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

"Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea."

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."

"Nothing like a cuppa after an oggy-boggy that finished up better than a slap in the face with a wet kipper."

"Who, sitting down to tea after hours spent in country sunshine, can fail to tell himself that he is living in a far m…"

"Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities."

"Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene."