Tea is much more than a drink. It’s a way to slow down, relax and connect with loved ones. Whether you like black tea or another variety, these quotes will help you appreciate the many benefits of tea. So sit back, relax, and enjoy a cup of your favorite cup of tea to warm your soul!
“When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea.” – Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“This morning’s tea makes yesterday distant.” – Author Unknown
“There’s something hypnotic about the word tea.” – Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.” – George Orwell, Smothered Under Journalism: 1946
“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.” – Honore de Balzac
“No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served.” – Earlene Grey
“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.” – Alexander Pushkin
“If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.” – Japanese proverb
“There is no problem on earth that can’t be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.” – Jasper Fforde
“Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?” – Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson
“If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.” – Osho
“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.” – Kakuzo Okahura, The Book of Tea
“You’ll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – Winston Churchill
“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.” – Frances Hardinge
“Life is like a cup of tea. It’s all in how you make it.” – Author Unknown
“No matter what is happening in your life, you always offer tea.” – Clemantine Wamariya
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” – Henry James
“Looking deeply into your tea, you see that you are drinking fragrant plants that are the gift of Mother Earth. You see the labor of the tea pickers; you see the luscious tea fields and plantations in Sri Lanka, China, and Vietnam. You know that you are drinking a cloud; you are drinking the rain. The tea contains the whole universe.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Wherever you are drinking your tea, whether at work, in a cafe, or at home, it is wonderful to allow enough time to appreciate it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“A cup of tea is an excuse to share great thoughts with great minds.” – Cristina Re
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
“Yes, that’s it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it’s always tea time” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“There’s always time for tea.” – Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night
“Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.” – Ancient Chinese proverb
“I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.” – Lu T’ung
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” – Bill Watterson
“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
“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy tea and that’s kind of the same thing.” – Author Unknown
“I got nasty habits – I take tea at three.” – Micke Jagger
“Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.” – Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow
“A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.” – Chinese Proverb
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.” – Lin Yutang
“The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.” – Arthur Gray
“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
“I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work. Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.” – Leo Tolstoy
“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
“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be diminished by a nice cup of tea.” – Bernard-Paul Heroux
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single momen.” – Muriel Barbery
“Tea should be taken in solitude.” – C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life