Book Of Tea Quotes

#1. We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen. Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea

Douglas Preston

#2. The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.

Cherie Priest

#3. home. She would have sat in her armchair on the veranda with a pot of tea and a book. As if nothing had happened, as if the world out there were just as unchanged as her comfortable study.

Maxim Leo

#4. No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be satisfied.

C.S. Lewis

#5. My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used.

Kristin Cashore

#6. On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply.

Edward Gorey

#7. When I want to travel I don't need an airplane, train, or bike. Just give me a comfortable seat, a cup of tea, and a really good book.

Unknown

#8. You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

#9. I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy.

Robert Pattinson

#10. Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Bill Watterson

#11. For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script. I make a cup of tea and I read it the same way I would read a book, with the same amount of joy.

Billy Campbell

#12. Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?

Okakura Kakuzo

#13. A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Charles Lamb

#14. This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.

Conn Iggulden

#15. Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.

Kathleen Thompson Norris

#16. I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Robert Fisk

#17. We haven't any and you're too young.

Lewis Carroll

#18. I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

Barack Obama

#19. I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.

Amber Le Bon

#20. The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...

Catharine Beecher

#21. Lewis once said, 'You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.' I'd have to agree. Wouldn't you?

Diane Moody

#22. Nothing good happens after two a.m. Unless you happen to be a fan of watching people play flip cup for hours on end. Not me. No, I'd much prefer to be in my flannel pajamas with a cup of Night-Night tea and a book, thank you very much.

Jenny Han

#23. Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea.

Jeanne DuPrau

#24. Tea, chocolate,Scotties and a good book. Perfect!

Pamela Harden

#25. Get a good book, get few bottles of water or few cups of tea/coffee or Chocolate milk and start reading.

Deyth Banger