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:

    “They were right. The Soviet régime is not the embodiment of evil as you think in the West. They have laws and I broke them. I hate tea and they love tea. Who is wrong?”
    —Alexander Zinoviev (b. 1922)

    “Not angels, but ghosts;
    curling like pink tea cups
    on any pillow, or kicking,
    showing their innocent bottoms, wailing
    for Lucifer.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “When one has tea and wine one will have many friends.”
    —Chinese proverb.