A woman is like a teabag – only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

Polly put the kettle on, we’ll all have tea.

In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

And the sooner the tea’s out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin eh?

Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

‘Take some more tea,’ the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.

‘I’ve had nothing yet,’ Alice replied in an offended tone, ‘so I can’t take more.’

‘You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: ‘it’s very easy to take more than nothing.’

Is it some party in a parlour, crammed just as they on earth were crammed – some sipping punch, some sipping tea, but as you by their faces see, all silent, and all damned?

It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one’s time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

Here thou, great Anna!
whom three realms obey,
dost sometimes counsel take – and sometimes tea.