Category: Tea Quotes SMS

As the centerpiece of a cherished ritual, it’s a talisman against the chill of winter, a respite from the ho-hum routine of the day.  ~Sarah Engler, "Tea Up," Real Simple magazine, February 2006

Harry found the [tea]… seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.  ~J.K. Rowling

google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) When the news reporter said "Shopkeepers are opening their doors bringing out blankets and cups of tea" I just smiled.  It’s like yes.  That’s Britain for you.  Tea solves everything.  You’re a bit cold?  Tea.  Your boyfriend has just left you?  Tea.  You’ve just been told you’ve got cancer?  Tea.  Coordinated terrorist attack on […]

Tea…with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.  ~Okakura

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.  ~Henry James, The Portrait of a LadyCOCI

Tea’s proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.  ~Samuel Johnson”Review of A Journal of Eight Days’ Journey,” Literary Magazine, vol2, no13, 1757

Tea, although an Oriental Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast. ~G.K. Chesterton, "The Song of Right and Wrong"

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.  ~Japanese Proverb

The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.  ~George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. ~Edmund Waller, "Of Tea"

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.  ~Honoré de Balzac

Top off the tea… it lubricates the grey matter.  ~Good Neighborsthe character Jerry Ledbetter, quoted from stashtea.com

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you.  Now tell me about hundreds of things.  ~SakiCOCI

Is there no Latin word for Tea?  Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.  ~Hilaire Belloc, On Nothing, "On Tea," 1908

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.  ~Bernard-Paul Heroux

tea leaves tea loves loves tea lives tea leaves tea? never. ~Uniek Swain

Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.  ~T’ien Yiheng

Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage – leave sagacity to the autumn!  ~Linda Solegato

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.  ~Gladstone, 1865

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.  ~Sydney Smith

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on.  ~Billy Connolly

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day.  It’s never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.  ~Tom Holt

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.  ~Author Unknown, Pathways: Restful Meditations, Zen Haiku translated by Gary Crounse

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs.  We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so.  It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.  After eggs and bacon it says, "Work!"  After beefsteak and porter, it says, "Sleep!"  After a cup of tea (two spoonfuls for each […]

The first cup moistens my lips and throat.  The second cup breaks my loneliness.  The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs.  The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration – all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores.  At the fifth cup I am […]