Charles Dickens Tea Quotations

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea...

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.