Tea

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many people enjoy.

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Famous quotes containing the word tea:

    “It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.”
    —Agnes Repplier (1858–1950)

    “O how terrible it must be for a young man—
    seated before a family and the family thinking
    We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
    After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living”
    —Gregory Corso (b. 1930)

    “Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea.”
    —Irving Caesar (b. 1895)