Tea Quotes and Sayings for Tea Lovers

Tea Quotes and Sayings for Tea-Lovers

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White 

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
― Douglas Adams

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
― Neil Gaiman  

“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 

“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  

 “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 

“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.”
― Aprilynne Pike, Illusions  

“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
― Gary Snyder 
 

 “Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
― Sydney Smith, A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith 

 “There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living 

“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.”
― Frances Hardinge  

“While there is tea, there is hope.”
― Arthur Wing Pinero, Sweet Lavender - A Comedy in Three Acts.

“Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey  

 “But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park 

 “Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
― Agatha Christie 

“The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.”
― Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day  

“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
-Mick Jagger  

“Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword
Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)”
― Lemony Snicket 

"At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.”
― Robert Godden

“Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?”
― Noel Coward 

 “Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow

 “Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth."
 [From: 19 Lessons On Tea]”
― Alexander Pushkin  


“A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.”
― Mary Lou Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide


“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.”
― James Boswell, London Journal, 1762-1763  


  “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, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

“A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.”

― Phoebe Stone, The Romeo and Juliet Code  

“Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.”

― Christine Feehan, Hidden Currents 

“Coffee—a barbaric drink. That poor, tortured bean. All that fermenting and husking and roasting and grinding. And what is tea? Tea is dried leaves rehydrated. Just add water, Mrs. Strickland. All living things need water.”

― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

“I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.”  

― Paul Colman  

“When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea.”

― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus 

“Grim determination was one thing. Outright heroism before I’d drunk my morning tea was quite another...”

― Stephanie Burgis, Snowspelled

“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."

(Essay on Tea, 1757.)”

― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson

“Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.”

― Helen Simpson, The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea

“Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”― George R. Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."

― Arthur Gray, Little Tea Book

“The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.”

― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

I was learning, even in my brief time in England, that a cup of tea almost always helped. I didn't know whether it was the caffeine, the warmth, or the simple fact of having someone else do something kind, but a soothing cup of tea in Harriet Dalrymple's cottage was fast becoming my lifeline to sanity.”

― Beth Pattillo

“You can serve high tea around the dining room table, but afternoon tea is more of a living room occasion, with everything brought in on a tray or a cart.”

― Angela Hynes, The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea 

“The hour [...] can be anywhere between three and six o'clock in the afternoon. The general rule is that the earlier tea is served, the lighter the refreshments. At three, tea is usually a snack -- dainty finger sandwiches, petits fours, fresh strawberrries; at six, it can be a meal -- or "high" tea -- with sausage rolls, salads, and trifle.”

― Angela Hynes, The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea 

“Tea is always an excuse for a clandestine agenda.”

― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Tea: was there ever a more universal and life-sustaining beverage.”

― Ray Mears, Wilderness Chef: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Outdoors  

 “I want the home about me: candles burning, curtains drawn, warmth, tea, friendship, love.”

― Winston Graham, Jeremy Poldark


“It's unbelievable really, the reviving power of a hot bath, a cup of tea and a roaring fire.”

― M.A. Bennett, S.T.A.G.S 

“Tea is not vodka, it is impossible to drink it a lot”

― Mikhail Bulgakov 

“To tea, without which I would likely be dead.”

― Tara Sim, Timekeeper

“Tea is her answer to everything. I once broke my arm and she tried to give me Lapsang Souchong”

― Gail Carriger, Reticence

“Tea has a manner of setting the world right.”

― John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry

“The British definitely like their tea. It’s their solution to everything, all problems and concerns. If there’s ever a major crisis, a cup of tea will help.”

― C.R. Stewart  

“As a measure of our consternation, one or two people nearly put down their cups of tea.”

― Jodi Taylor, And the Rest is History

 

“tea-spi-ra-tion
noun
- being inspired to do, create or feel something extraordinary, all thanks to tea.”

― Lu Ann Pannunzio, Tea-spiration: Inspirational Words for Tea Lovers