Tea Quotes

From Dickens to the Queen, they all had something to say about tea!

Bring me a cup of tea and the "Times." (Queen Victoria’s first command upon her accession to the throne)

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. (Okakura Kakuzo, "Book of Tea")

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. (Henry James)

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones, the kettle boils, bubbles and sings musically. (Rabindranath Tagore)

If two women should pour from the same pot, one of them will have a baby within a year. (tea superstition)

Two teaspoons accidentally placed together on a saucer, points to a wedding or a pregnancy. (tea superstition)

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. (Catherine Douzel)

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)

The mere clink of cups and saucers turns the mind to happy repose. (George Gissing)

Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t drink tea? (Noel Coward)

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. (Henry Fielding “Love in Several Masques”)

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement. (Arthur Gray)

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. (Ralph Waldo Emerson “Letters and Social Aims”)

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. (Sydney Smith)

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. (Chinese Proverb)

The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right. (Terri Guillemets)

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 man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. (Japanese Proverb)

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)

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. (A.A. Milne)

Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings! (Author Unknown)

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)