Tea and Coffee Quotes

Many a famous person has had something to day about tea and coffee.

Coffee

"Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and as sweet as love."
Turkish proverb

"Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment."
Agatha Christie

"Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma."
Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"How sweet coffee tastes! Lovlier than a thousand kisses, sweeter than Muscatel wine!"
Johann Sebastian Bach (Coffee Cantata)

"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce."
Oliver Wendall Holmes Sr.

Tea

"I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time."
Sidney Smith

"Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth."
Alexander Puskin

"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! I am glad I was not born before tea."
Sydney Smith

"If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you."
William Gladstone

"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."
Alice Walker

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Henry James

"There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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