1. Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
- Bill Watterson
2. 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.
- William Ewart Gladstone
3. I got nasty habits – I take tea at three.
- Mick Jagger
4. But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
- Jane Austen
5. 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.
- William Ewart Gladstone
6. Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.
- Frances Hardinge
7. There is no problem on earth that can’t be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
- Jasper Fforde
8. Great love affairs start with champagne and end with tisane.
- Honoré de Balzac
9. If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
- Osho
10. Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
- Edmund Waller
11. You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
- C. S. Lewis
12. Tea is to the body as music is to the soul.
- Earlene Grey
13. The very act of preparing and serving tea encourages conversation. The little spaces in time created by teatime rituals call out to be filled with conversation. Even the tea itself–warm and comforting–inspires a feeling of relaxation and trust that fosters shared confidences.
- Emilie Barnes
14. The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.
- Arthur Gray
15. Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
- Letitia Baldrige
16. Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
- William Cowper
17. I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
- Sydney Smith
18. In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea…the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
- George Gigging
19. Tea is balm for the soul, don’t you agree?
- P. L. Travers
20. Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.
- Frances Hardinge
21. Tea will take you there.
- Ags Sachs
22. Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?
- James M. Barrie
23. There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
- Lin Yutang
24. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
- Muriel Barbery
25. Come along inside… We’ll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
- Kenneth Grahame
26. Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.
- Jonathan Stroud
27. A cup of tea would restore my normality.
- Douglas Adams
28. Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
- Agatha Christie
29. A cup of tea is an excuse to share great thoughts with great minds.
- Cristina Re
30. Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
- Alice Walker
31. Tea is a part of daily life. It is as simple as eating when hungry and drinking when thirsty.
- Yamamoto Soshun
32. Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea?
- Noel Coward
33. A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.
- Mary Lou Heiss
34. I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
35. Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
- Thomas de Quincey
36. Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
- Catherine Douzel
37. Tea is best when enjoyed in pleasant surroundings, whether indoors or out, where the atmosphere is tranquil, the setting harmonious.
- John Blofeld
38. Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher.
- Chinese Proverb
39. Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
- Japansese Proverb
41. You have arrived at a propitious moment, coincident with your country’s one indisputable contribution to Western Civilization: Afternoon tea
- Hugo Drax, Moonraker
42. Tea cannot be learned from a book, only from the heart.
- Sochi
43. The ‘art of tea’ is a spiritual force for us to share.
- Alexandra Stoddard
44. Tea is the elixir of life.
- Lao Tzu
45. Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
46. Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
- Alexander Pushkin
47. Tea brings time to a crawl, its frantic pace resuming on noticing our empty cups.
- Terri Guillemets
48. There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be diminished by a nice cup of tea.
- Bernard-Paul Heroux
49. Do not gulp the tea but sip it slowly allowing its fragrance to fill your mouth. There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness.
- Pojong Sunim
50. It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
- Agnes Repplier
51. When you are drinking tea, it is basically a private conversation between the tea and your individual soul.
- Lu Ann Pannunzio
52. ?Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.
- Chinese Proverb
53. If at first, you don’t succeed, have a cup of tea.
- Peter Scott
54. All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
- George Orwell
55. There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- Henry James
56. When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
- Muriel Barbery
57. Tea is one of the mainstays of civilization in this country.
- George Orwell
58. Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.
- James Norwood Pratt
59. The Chinese say it’s better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
- Khaled Hosseini
60. Coffee isn’t my cup of tea.
- Samuel Goldwyn
61. No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served.
- Earlene Grey
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