Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding
May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you and all your heart might desire.
Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.
T’ien Yiheng
Tea pot is on, the cups are waiting, Favorite chairs anticipating, No matter what I have to do, My friend there’s always time for you
There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there’s tea there’s hope.
Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
Catherine Douzel
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you’re at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
Sydney Smith
Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea!’ And if you were my wife, I would drink it!
Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.
Chinese Proverb
Tea and books – Mmmmmm, two of life’s exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss.
There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. Bernard-Paul Heroux
A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water
Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.
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
The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.
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
Tea is a cup of life.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
George Gissing
Tea should be taken in solitude.
C.S. Lewis
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
Japanese Proverb
Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious
Tea is liquid wisdom.
Anonymous
Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
Saki
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Honore de Balzac
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
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
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
Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.
John Egerton
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
J.B. Priestley
Tea…is a religion of the art of life.
Okakura
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
George Orwell
Tea does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapours which the head invade
And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
A.A. Milne
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea
A woman is like a tea bag,you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.
Lu Yu
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on.
Billy Connolly
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. Lewis
Top off the tea… it lubricates the grey matter.
Good Neighbors
When we sip tea, we are on our way to serenity.
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
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.
Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness
Remember the tea kettle – it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings!
That’s one of the things I look forward to about an evening like this – someone to drink tea with at the end of it. For all I know, the whole point of civilisation is to provide one with someone to drink tea with at the end of an evening.
Tea is instant wisdom – just add water!
Astrid Alauda
The first sip of tea is the always the best – when you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion and that from here it will only get colder.
Harry found the tea… seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.
J.K. Rowling
Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,… thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
Colley Cibber