Top 100 Tea Coffee Quotes
#1. Get a good book, get few bottles of water or few cups of tea/coffee or Chocolate milk and start reading.
Deyth Banger
#2. The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning.
Sam Allardyce
#3. We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs ...
Charles Dickens
#4. Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.
Charles Darwin
#5. The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
Jamie L. Harding
#6. Coffee and chocolate are certainly wonderful, but they must forever carry tea's silken train, ever the bridesmaids and never the bride.
Paul F. Kortepeter
#7. Then there's your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces ... anything that's nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It's amazing how quickly you get into it. There's also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously ... about two litres a day.
Tom Hardy
#8. We sell tea in Starbucks, but I think the experience is very different. I think coffee is something that is quick - it's transactional. I think tea is more Zen-like. It requires a different environment.
Howard Schultz
#9. I've never had coffee. I've always hated the smell. It was always tea. I was a pretty typical kid, though. I grew up drinking Lipton. I didn't know there was other tea to drink.
Billy Corgan
#10. And there's nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you'll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.
Catherynne M Valente
#11. I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side.
Sting
#12. [John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room next door. It just ... started.
Gena Rowlands
#13. I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
Taylor Schilling
#14. Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
Tahereh Mafi
#15. The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.
Douglas Adams
#18. The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.
Frederick Lenz
#19. I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.
Saffron Aldridge
#20. Much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
Frances Moore Lappe
#21. A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.
John Harvey Kellogg
#22. Tea? Good God, no. It's mud. How the British ever built an empire drinking the filthy stuff is beyond me. And if we carry on drinking it, I've no doubt that the empire won't last much longer. No, a civilized person drinks coffee.
Charlie Higson
#23. Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.
Pearl Cleage
#24. The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you're a zombie. And you're talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
Billy Connolly
#25. The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#26. I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.
Ben Oakland
#27. Every morning just before breakfast I don't want no coffee or tea, just me and my good Buddy Wieser, that's all I ever need.
George Thorogood
#28. I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.
Arjun Rampal
#29. She asked how I liked my tea and I told her with cream and sugar (but really, I like my tea to be coffee),
Lisa Lutz
#30. Cody made a pot of coffee and heated water for Rosetta's tea. He needed the time alone to process what Wilkes had said. For the first time in his career, he wished he wasn't a cop. The evidence pointed to Catherine, and yet his heart told him that wasn't possible. He wanted to listen to his heart.
Linda S. Prather
#31. It's quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the number of Fairtrade choices: not just staples such as coffee, tea, fresh fruits and rice, but cocoa and chocolate, herbs and spices, honey, ice cream, and jams.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#32. There had been no real coffee in Copenhagen since the beginning of the Nazi occupation. Not even any real tea. The mothers sipped at hot water flavored with herbs. "Annemarie,
Lois Lowry
#33. I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don't know, get drunk, run around, take my shirt off and get kicked out of someplace. You know, live a little.
Michelle Tea
#34. I'm actually not a big coffee fan, so I don't drink it that much. I'd rather have a green tea. But I do love to get a white mocha sometimes - it is just a strong order.
Emeraude Toubia
#35. Like you begin your day with a cup of coffee or tea. Some begin their relationship with love and trust.
It's not merely a choice - it's a habit and a lifestyle.
Saru Singhal
#37. You are neither coffee nor tea,
you are just the right amount of
whatever it is I'm trying to find.
Sade Andria Zabala
#38. Who wants tea and sympathy? Let's have coffee and sex, Stacey, eh?
Margaret Laurence
#39. In a shooting day in the U.K., every few hours, everyone takes a bit of a tea break - not coffee, but a tea break. They bring out these little finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Everyone sits around for a few minutes, with their pinkies in the air, drinking. It's so cultured.
Jonathan Silverman
#40. It was a small place with bulbs of alcohol, chocolate, coffee, and tea all set with temperature controls in the nipple, so the uniformly tepid drinks could come out anywhere from almost boiling to just this side of ice. The
James S.A. Corey
#41. China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
Howard Schultz
#42. When I travel on an airplane, I like to be served TWA milk and TWA coffee. But I love to be served TWA tea.
Richard Lederer
#43. Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#44. Coffee is for winners, go-getters, tea-ignorers, lunch-cancellers, early-risers, guilt-ridden strivers, money obsessives and status-driven spiritually empty lunatics. It is an enervating force. We should resist it and embrace tea, the ancient drink of poets, philosophers and meditators.
Tom Hodgkinson
#45. It was around then that the phone rang. It was my friend Cee Cee, wanting to know if I cared to join her and Adam McTavish at the Coffee Clutch to drink iced tea and talk bad about everyone we know.
Meg Cabot
#46. Waiter: "Tea or coffee, gentlemen?" First customer: "I'll have tea." Second customer: "Me too - and be sure the glass is clean!" (WAITER EXITS, RETURNS) Waiter: "Two teas. Which one asked for the clean glass?
Leo Rosten
#47. I never trust a man who tucks in his shirt by choice or neglects coffee in favor of tea.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#48. The first thing I do when I wake up is take a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, and vitamins, and then I look at my dogs. I have three dogs, Rosa, Toto, and Mimmo, all Labradors.
Stefano Gabbana
#50. Those of you watching and listening, get a cup of coffee or a spot of tea and join us back here in just a few moments.
Dan Rather
#51. Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles!
William Cobbett
#52. Ladies and gentlemen, those flames from the port engines are perfectly normal. The stewardess will be coming around in a moment to serve coffee, tea, or milk. I'm sorry we don't have anything stronger on this flight - regulations don't permit it.
Arthur C. Clarke
#53. Show (don't tell) your customers that you have good quality by actually delivering fresh coffee and tea. Intelligent people are active recipients of information, and prefer to reach conclusions by themselves.
Jerry Baldwin
#54. Beginning with Bilbo's unexpected party in chapter 1 with its tea, seed-cakes, buttered scones, apple-tarts, mince-pies, cheese, eggs, cold chicken, pickles, beer, coffee, and smoke rings, we find that a reverence, celebration, and love of the everyday is an essential part of Tolkien's moral vision
Devin Brown
#55. Her sister had always teased her saying that people who drank tea were boring, but the ones who drank coffee were cool.
Anya Wylde
#56. I don't drink tea. I hate it. It's mud. Moreover it's one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.
Ian Fleming
#57. How could they find out that their tea and coffee, their sugar and flour, had been doctored; that their canned peas had been colored with copper salts, and their fruit jams with aniline dyes?
Upton Sinclair
#58. He was wondering why, in Britain, he could get just about every type of coffee possible, including some he felt were patently ridiculous, but finding a good cup of tea was becoming harder and harder.
Gavin G. Smith
#59. I wouldn't recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley.
Chris Froome
#61. Mr. Grey will see you in a few minutes. Would you like a refreshment while you wait? Coffee, soda, tea ... ?" "Gravy," I say.
Fanny Merkin
#62. It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.
Rose Prince
#63. Tea and mangas instead of coffee and newspapers: something elegant and enchanting, instead of adult power struggles and their sad aggressiveness.
Muriel Barbery
#64. If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products that are in our stores, we think we can significantly enhance them and make them more widely available.
Howard Schultz
#66. Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
Ellen G. White
#67. Breakfast was all about possibilities. No other meal allowed for so much choice - sweet or savory, light or heavy? Tea or coffee? And while enjoying the fruit of these decisions, the whole day waited, unsullied, to be filled up like a plate.
Erin Satie
#68. I was drinking a cup of tea. I actually enjoyed tea. It was so much better than coffee. It tasted like comfort.
Matt Haig
#69. I looked at Monty, who nodded and was thoroughly enjoying himself. I would spike his tea later - my revenge would be bitter and its name was coffee. "How
Orlando A. Sanchez
#70. A woman appeared and began to generate tea and coffee
Max Barry
#71. Will you go out with me for a cup of coffee?" "No." "No?" "I prefer tea, thank you.
Padma Venkatraman
#72. He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me.
Jacques Prevert
#73. There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
Gary Snyder
#74. She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.
Fay Weldon
#76. When we rise in the morning ... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#77. For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.
Katarina Bivald
#78. This was going to be the best cup of tea ever, even if it did look piss weak and oily. He took a gentle sip. Motherfuckers. It was coffee.
Simon Dunn
#79. There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal ... instant dislike.
Charles M. Schulz
#80. When you get the coffee from the store, does it come in a great big metal can?'
He beamed. 'Absolutely.'
That was all I needed to hear. Tea. A cup of tea.
Steven James
#81. When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about ... A little tea or coffee restores them ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.
Florence Nightingale
#82. Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.
Arthur Gray
#83. Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.
John Vanderslice
#84. My kingdom for caffeine," she mumbled, making prayer hands up at the ceiling.
When, however, in the next second, Issa entered with tea, Zuzana was not grateful.
"Coffee, I meant coffee," she told the ceiling, as if the universe were a waiter that had gotten her order wrong.
Laini Taylor
#85. She went from opera, park, assembly, play,
To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day.
To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,
To muse, and spill her solitary tea,
Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon,
Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
Alexander Pope
#86. He felt that alcohol, cigarettes and the occasional cannabis joint was quite enough. There was no need to add caffeine to the list of health risks he put his body through."-Drake Kingsley's reason for not drinking tea or coffee, The Venetian Violinist.
Marcio Goncalves
#87. I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast. The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I'm afraid I won't be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep.
Christoph Niemann
#88. Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.
Jason Wong
#89. I like coffee in the morning and decaf green tea throughout the day ... When I was younger and modeling, to kick-start a diet I would do a juice cleanse.
Christie Brinkley
#90. I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them.
Andrea Gibson
#91. I love America for its bourgeois comfort. If I was as heavily in debt as they are, I wouldn't be drinking tea or coffee anywhere. I would be sipping tap water from an old bottle and serving others tea or coffee in a cafe somewhere.
Vann Chow
#92. The joy of the new, hip, happening, double-espresso Dublin is that you can blame any strange mood on coffee deprivation. This never worked in the era of tea, at least not at the same level of street cred.
Tana French
#93. Karen led her guest into the kitchen where she'd laid the table with flowers and her prettiest stoneware in neat place settings amidst good coffee and cake smells, with a hope that now seemed transparent for its desire to impress with simplicity and goodness: a childlike tea party dream.
V.S. Kemanis
#94. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
#95. A cup in her hand that was either strong tea or weak coffee. She nodded toward his desktop monitor. On it, three
James S.A. Corey
#96. See, that's a coffee drinker's problem,' Marina said. 'Meanwhile, I'm perfectly fine with tea bags.'
'I love that there's such a rivalry,' said Charlie. 'It's like, leaf watt versus bean water, you know?
Robyn Schneider
#97. All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.
Parul Wadhwa
#99. I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.
Michael Owen
#100. Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can, And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran: Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea - And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three!
Lewis Carroll
