Bores Quote by George Mikes

“THE trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their…

— George Mikes

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in…

— Marlene Dietrich

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.…

— Timothy Mo

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

— Okakura Kakuzo

Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. The beverage…

— Okakura Kakuzo

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in…

— Marlene Dietrich

Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions…

— Ayn Rand

Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it.…

— Neal Stephenson

“Tea, for me, is one of the great subjects. It is a romatic trade, it does not pollute excessively, it has all sorts of…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The British custom of taking tea as an afternoon break has more to do with sugar than with tea. During the nineteenth century, when…

— Richard Manning

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

— Kurt Cobain

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant…

— Agnes Repplier