Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
Tea should be taken in solitude. ~C.S. Lewis
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
Tea is liquid wisdom. ~Anonymous
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 Lady
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ~Thich Nat Hahn
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A.A. Milne
Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest. ~J.K. Rowling
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 purified. The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither. ~Lu Tung, "Tea-Drinking"
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 cup, and don't let it stand for more than three minutes), it says to the brain, "Now rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature, and into life: spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!" ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
Chanoyu is just a matter of boiling water, and drinking tea; nothing else is involved. ~Sen Rikyu
"Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking." ~Agatha Christie, Sleeping Murder
"A Little Princess...it's always tea-time... " ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea." ~William Gladstone, British Prime Minister.
"My dear, if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs." ~Charles Dickens
"Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth" ~Alexander Puskin
"I don't drink coffee; I take tea, my dear." ~Sting, An Englishman in New York
