Spot of Tea/Quotes

Xander: Shouldn't you be drinking tea?
Giles: Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.

Xander: Alright, but you're destroying a perfectly good cultural stereotype here.

—Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Sick of tea? That's like being sick of breathing!"

—Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender

"I don't drink coffee, I take tea my dear."

—Sting, "Englishman in New York"

Have some tea, my lord, some chrysanthemum tea..

An informal variation on the normal recipe.

—From Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures

"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

—Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

"No, look, it's very, very simple ... all I want ... is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Keep quiet and listen."

—Arthur Dent, speaking to a Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

On eighty cups a day, I haven't slept for eighty years!

—Professor Elemental, Cup of Brown Joy

Mickey Smith: Tea? While we're waiting for the world to come to an end? Very British.

—Doctor Who

Eddie: The entire British empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I'm going to war without one, mate, you're mistaken.

—Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Ted: For God's sake, will you all shut up and help me think of a practical solution!?!

Mrs Doyle: Tea for everyone!

—Father Ted

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

—C. S. Lewis

"It can prolong drunkenness, cure a hangover, mend a broken heart, substitute as fuel for automobiles and farm machinery, be given as an elixir to put a stopper in death, subvert therapy, and bring together an entire country in times of national crisis."

—Heather Hogan finally gets the British obsession while recapping Skins (and Coronation Street) at AfterEllen.com

Will: What be tea?
The Doctor: Oh, a noxious infusion of Oriental leaves containing a high percentage of toxic acid.
Will: Sounds an evil brew, don't it?

The Doctor: True. [Beat] Personally, I rather like it.

—Doctor Who: "The Awakening"

"Would you like some tea? It's a hug in a cup."

—Patrick Jane, The Mentalist

Hatsworth: IT'S TEA TIME!

—Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure

...tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes.

—George Orwell, A Spot of Tea

Tea is still believed, by English people of all classes, to have miraculous properties. ... Whatever your mental or physical state, what you need is "a nice cup of tea". ... A bad accident - people are injured and in shock: tea is neaded. "I'll put the kettle on." World War Three breaks out - a nuclear attack is imminent. "I'll put the kettle on."

You get the idea. We are rather fond of tea.

—anthropologist Kate Fox, Watching the English, 2004

There's nothing in life that can't be sorted with a good brew.

—Steph Haydock, Waterloo Road