Top 100 Quotes About Tea
#1. The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.
Hosokawa Tadaoki
#2. that the way you manage?' Alice asked. The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he replied. 'We quarrelled last March--just before he went mad, you know--' (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) '--it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and
Lewis Carroll
#3. When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar and a piece of cake, today the whole world doesn't give me that life.
M.F. Moonzajer
#4. On the outside she might appear cool, but inside her heart felt as though it was disintegrating like a digestive dropped in hot tea
Jill Mansell
#5. Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
Ann Patchett
#6. He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite interesting: like having tea with a rhinoceros.
Stella Gibbons
#7. There was carpet under Blanchefleur's feet and the scent of clean and delicate things in her nostrils - perfume, babies, soap, and tea. Homesickness hit her like a clenched fist; this was worse than memory.
Suzannah Rowntree
#8. England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea ...
Charles Churchill
#9. Tea. Of course. This was what the English always offered you. It
Chris Ewan
#10. I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.
Antonio Banderas
#11. Unlike Champions, Godmothers don't have to keep undergoing ridiculous ordeals every time one turns around. Our idea of besting a dragon is not to chop it into bits, but to get it to sit down to tea.
Mercedes Lackey
#12. Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#13. To all those people who say that the Tea Party is a racist organization, eat your words.
Herman Cain
#14. Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea.
Irving Caesar
#15. Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.
Ron Fournier
#16. I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder
Mingmei Yip
#17. Eluned had to work very hard not to stare impolitely, for Princess Celestine was reputedly the daughter of a dragon, and thus naturally the most interesting person who could possibly interrupt afternoon tea.
Andrea K. Host
#18. Nay, father.
Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party.
- Thor, God of Thunder
Matt Fraction
#19. The house was cozy, with a fire burning in every fireplace. The familiar scents of tea brewing in the samovar and Maman's warmed cherry brandy smelled like love to me.
Robin Bridges
#20. The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#21. She asked how I liked my tea and I told her with cream and sugar (but really, I like my tea to be coffee),
Lisa Lutz
#22. They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.
Jonathan Richman
#23. Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, Must get on with the tea.
Kate Atkinson
#24. I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.
Katja Millay
#25. The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.
Louis Tomlinson
#26. I am going home. You and your lady can stay here and rot. Or have a tea party. I really don't care.
Rosamund Hodge
#27. There's no 'I' in team. But there is 'tea'. So put the kettle on,
Dave Turner
#28. The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
Naomi Wolf
#29. As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.
Kristin Chenoweth
#30. I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
Mick Jagger
#31. A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine.
S.A. Tawks
#32. I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.
Ned Kelly
#33. You drink tea, do yoga and don't watch TV," he stated. "Yep," I answered. "Jesus," he muttered,
Kristen Ashley
#34. You should see Nina's clan tartan," she said, pouring herself more tea. "It's white with orange, green, and royal blue. Horrendous."
"We took to calling any obnoxious pattern Clan MacGarish," I said.
"Or MacHideous," added Laurence.
"MacUgly," I continued.
"MacClash," he countered.
Molly Ringle
#35. All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
Joseph Addison
#36. It's quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the number of Fairtrade choices: not just staples such as coffee, tea, fresh fruits and rice, but cocoa and chocolate, herbs and spices, honey, ice cream, and jams.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#37. A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the small handful of banks and investment companies who advertise on Fox and CNBC.
Matt Taibbi
#38. This was what it meant to live in Botswana; when the rest of the world might work itself into a frenzy of activity, one might still sit, in the space before a house with ochre walls, a mug of bush tea in one's hand, and talk about very small things: headmen in wells, goats and jealousy.
Alexander McCall Smith
#39. I simply feel that world domination is not my cup of tea. Is that shortsighted?
Gail Carriger
#40. White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
James Joyce
#41. I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
Boy George
#42. No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be satisfied.
C.S. Lewis
#43. As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.
George Orwell
#44. There had been no real coffee in Copenhagen since the beginning of the Nazi occupation. Not even any real tea. The mothers sipped at hot water flavored with herbs. "Annemarie,
Lois Lowry
#46. Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi - the pracharak versus the prince, the 'outsider' versus the 'insider', the meritocrat versus the dynast, the small-town tea boy versus the child of elite privilege.
Rajdeep Sardesai
#47. That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
Howard Dean
#48. I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.
Austin Scott
#49. To us, dinner is a meal eaten at mid-day. Tea is a secondary meal of a substantial nature taken when we get home between five and six o'clock. Supper is a hot drink and "a bit of summat to eat" at bedtime.
Sylvia Lovat Corbridge
#50. I nod, and taking my tea, I head into the library. It's my refuge. I dig my BlackBerry out of my purse and contemplate calling Christian. I know it's a shock for him - but he really did overreact. When does he not overreact?
E.L. James
#51. I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air. My muscles are clenched tight against the cold. If a pack of wild dogs were to
Suzanne Collins
#52. One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?
Greg Dworkin
#54. At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway.
Letitia Baldrige
#56. This one day her mother gave her
a basket of wine and cake
to take to her grandmother
because she was ill.
Wine and cake?
Where's the aspirin? The penicillin?
Where's the fruit juice?
Peter Rabbit got camomile tea.
But wine and cake it was.
Anne Sexton
#57. It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
Dylan Thomas
#58. So what if nobody came? I'll have all the ice cream and tea, And I'll laugh with myself, And I'll dance with myself, And I'll sing, Happy Birthday to me!
Shel Silverstein
#59. I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
John Bonham
#60. The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it's a kitchen, if it's a place where they make food, it's fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)
Banana Yoshimoto
#61. But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
Jane Austen
#62. The tea-infused steam was another smell that brought back a fistful of memories, and I let them come. Better to open the door for them, even if they are sad, than to let them burn your house down from the outside.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#63. If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.
Sophie McShera
#64. When I think of the moment I knew that my marriage to Josiah would end, there were a few moments before I really, really knew. I probably knew, when I saw my ex-husband and his now wife - then colleague - having tea together in his office, that something was amiss.
Isabel Gillies
#65. May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm, bright place drinking lovely hot tea, help save him, even a little bit.
Banana Yoshimoto
#66. This was weird, civilized. Yes, I've come to rob you, sir. / How delightful; won't you have some tea before you do?
Kim Harrison
#68. People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party ... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm ... we have to reward them.
Niger Innis
#69. Yoh: Being popular with guys isn't something you can just stitch together!
Haruna: What?! I Can't?!
Yoh: OF COURSE NOT!
Yoh: Mixing coke, tea and orange juice would taste nasty, right?! That's exactly what you're doing!
Kazune Kawahara
#70. The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?
Ilona Andrews
#71. No tea for the feeble, no crepe for the dead.
Gilbert King
#72. I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work.
Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.
Leo Tolstoy
#75. About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.
Soren Kierkegaard
#76. My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.
Flannery O'Connor
#77. I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.
Lu Tong
#78. I'm actually not a big coffee fan, so I don't drink it that much. I'd rather have a green tea. But I do love to get a white mocha sometimes - it is just a strong order.
Emeraude Toubia
#79. Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword
Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)
Lemony Snicket
#80. I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
Kacey Musgraves
#82. As I am sure some of you know, I boast of the fact that for a couple of years I was a volunteer librarian, working weekends for no more reward than a cup of tea, a sweet biscuit, and a blind eye to the enormous number of books that I was taking home.
Terry Pratchett
#83. An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper
forgetting age for a moment.
Mason Cooley
#85. Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.
Tea Party Teddy
Dianne Harman
#86. You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.
Pamela Des Barres
#87. The Tea Party claims to want small government.
Penn Jillette
#88. With tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning.
Okakura Kakuzo
#89. We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
James P. Hoffa
#90. Do you want an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?
J.M. Barrie
#91. Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.
Ikkyu
#92. I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
Norman Douglas
#93. Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.
Benjamin Barber
#94. Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.
Narendra Modi
#95. Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.
Howard Fineman
#96. Okay, so she's mad as a sack of ferrets. Only I don't tell her so 'cause I'd like more of that green tea.
David Mitchell
#98. Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.
Ayn Rand
#99. Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.
Dorothea Johnson
#100. khan's mobile unit of doctors and pharmacists served him a tea made from orange peel, kudzu flowers, ginseng, sandalwood, and cardamom. Sipped on an empty stomach, the tea was guaranteed to overcome a hangover and make the khan fit for another day of hunting, eating, and drinking.
Jack Weatherford
