TEA QUOTES
quotations about tea
I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
'Twas very small--
Three guest in all--
Just I, myself and me.
Myself ate all the sandwiches,
While I drank up the tea;
'Twas also I who ate the pie
And passed the cake to me.
JESSICA NELSON NORTH
"The Tea Party"
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
Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking, it is a religion of the art of life.
KAKUZO OKAKURA
Book of Tea
I am Chinese. Tea is in my very bones.
KIT CHOW
All the Tea in China
When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.
THICH NHAT HANH
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Intruder in the Dust
Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away,
And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea.
ALEXANDER POPE
The Rape of the Lock
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?
D. T. SUZUKI
Zen and Japanese Culture
Tea is like a beautiful woman, never to be judged for her appearance. She has to be judged by her character.
NIRMAL SETHIA
"British-Indian billionaire Nirmal Sethia's love for tea has made him an avid collector of accessories", The National, March 27, 2017
Tea is like a perfect gentleman whose nature has no evil.
BROTHER ANTHONY OF TAIZE
The Korean Way of Tea: An Introductory Guide
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.
HILAIRE BELLOC
"On Tea", On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
Journal of Discourses
I'd always considered tea a relatively simple beverage. The British, of course, could not disagree more. An individual's particular tea preference is a lifelong commitment. Sharp lines are drawn. "How do you take your tea?" is perhaps the most loaded question in the British language. Milk or no milk? Sugar or no sugar? How long to steep? And unless you're ready for all out war, don't even think about asking whether the milk should be added before or after the water because you'll be dragged into a bitter dispute drawn along age-old lines of class and region, and as an American, your opinion won't count anyway.
JESSICA PAN
"What Americans can learn from the soothing British ritual of tea time", The Week, May 23, 2017
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
KAKUZO OKAKURA
Book of Tea
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 a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings -- generally the latter.
KAKUZO OKAKURA
Book of Tea
In English society while there is tea there is hope.
ARTHUR WING PINERO
Sweet Lavender: A Comedy in Three Acts
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 NHAT HANH
The Miracle of Mindfulness
When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
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