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| Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~ Henry Fielding |
| Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~ T’ien Yiheng |
| There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~ Author Unknown |
| Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~ Catherine Douzel |
| I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~ Sydney Smith |
| Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. ~ Bernard-Paul Heroux |
| Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. ~ Author Unknown |
| 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 |
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We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven’t had any tea for a week…
The bottom is out of the Universe.
~ Rudyard Kipling |
| 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 |
| 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, |
| The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. ~ George Gissing, |
| Tea should be taken in solitude. ~ C.S. Lewis |
| Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ~ Alice Walker |
| Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~ Honoré 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 |
O’ peppermint tea -
two delights per sip
as steamy hot as passion
cool as a wintry lake dip
~ Astrid Alauda |
| 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 |
| 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 leaves
tea loves
loves tea
lives tea
leaves tea?
never.
~ Uniek Swain |
| 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 |