Tea Quotes:- Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world.
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old tea quotes, tea sayings, and tea proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
Inspirational Tea Quotes And Sayings
“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
“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.”-Audrey Hepburn
“Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.”-Thomas de Quincey
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”-Henry Fielding
“Make tea, not war.”-Monty Python
“Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.”-James Norwood Pratt
“Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.”-T’ien Yi-heng
“If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.”-Japanese Proverb
“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”-Lin Yutang
“There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tea Quotes And Tea Sayings
“I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.”-Rev. Sydney Smith
“Tea- the cups that cheer but not inebriate.”-William Cowper
“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.”-Alexander Pushkin
“Immortals, hear, said Jove, and cease to the jar! Tea must succeed in Wine as Peace to War. Nor by the grape let a man be set at odds, but share in Tea, the nectar of the Gods.”-Peter Antoine Motteaux
“The very act of preparing and serving tea encourages conversation. The little spaces in time created by teatime rituals call out to be filled with conversation. Even the tea itself – warm and comforting-inspires a feeling of relaxation and trust that fosters shared confidences.”-Emilie Barnes
“In my own hands, I hold a bowl of tea; I see all of nature represented in its green color. Closing my eyes, I find green mountains and pure water within my own heart. Silently sitting alone and drinking tea, I feel these become a part of me.”-Sen Soshitsu
Famous Tea Quotes And Sayings
“Tea is wealth itself because there is nothing that cannot be lost, no problem that will not disappear, no burden that will not float away, between the first sip and the last.”-The Minister of Leaves, The Republic of Tea
“The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”-George Gissing
“The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.”-Arthur Gray
“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”-John Milton
“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
“The first sip of tea is always the best… you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion.”-Terri Guillemets
Top 10 Tea Quotes And Sayings
“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
“Tea’s proper use is to amuse the idle, relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.”-Samuel Johnson
“Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.”-Lu Yu
“The first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second shatters my loneliness. The third causes the wrongs of life to fade gently from my recollection. The fourth purifies my soul. The fifth lifts me to the realms of the unwinking gods”-Chinese Mystic, Tang Dynasty
