Top 74 Tea Drinking Quotes
#1. It was observable, too, that ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over. All
Charles Dickens
#2. Putting a damp spoon back in the bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle. And I did not want to end up with the tea-drinking equivalent of AIDS.
Alan Partridge
#3. Tea drinking is a liturgy of comfort, and we partake of it everywhere in the world. It's a ceremony of simplicity, nourishment for both the nomads in foreign teahouses and homebodies in their beds.
Tsh Oxenreider
#4. China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
Howard Schultz
#5. 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
#6. Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual
masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
Christina Stead
#7. I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
#8. I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
Peter Dinklage
#9. Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.
Brigham Young
#10. I like tea so much that I'm considering changing my name to Bergamot so that I can exist in a perpetual state of Earl Grey contentment.
Fennel Hudson
#11. I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
Taylor Schilling
#12. Make him stop drinking'. He prayed every night. " 'Lord, let my father die', he prayed very often. 'Let him not be killed at pit'", he prayed when, after tea, the father did not come home from work.
D.H. Lawrence
#13. I've never had coffee. I've always hated the smell. It was always tea. I was a pretty typical kid, though. I grew up drinking Lipton. I didn't know there was other tea to drink.
Billy Corgan
#15. Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good ... and there are gooseberries.
Anton Chekhov
#16. Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.
Bob Hope
#17. Ivan took his tea gratefully but Philippe watched dispassionately as he took a long sip from it, as though he did not think that now was the moment for drinking tea.
William Axtell
#18. A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!"
"Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.
Miss Read
#19. When I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.
Emily M. Danforth
#20. 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.
Soshitsu Sen XV
#21. You won't trick me that easily into drinking your tea of concupiscence, Miss Ashby.
Tiffany Reisz
#22. There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.
Alan Clark
#23. if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have a cup of tea, I will be equally incapable of drinking the tea joyfully.
Anonymous
#24. I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.
Edward Carey
#25. I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.
James Lileks
#26. Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.
Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.
Is the glass part full or part empty?
Take another sip.
And now?
Vera Nazarian
#27. Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.
Maria Parloa
#28. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.
Nhat Hanh
#29. The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.
Louis Tomlinson
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I will spend my life traveling, laughing, drinking all kinds of tea, meeting new people, reading good books, growing things, creating beauty, eating chocolate, doing magic, making love and occasionally I will write something worth reading.
Brooke Hampton
#34. A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.
Fennel Hudson
#35. Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain hose distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. Weep ... I sit in the chair and ooze like a sponge.
Margaret Atwood
#36. In a shooting day in the U.K., every few hours, everyone takes a bit of a tea break - not coffee, but a tea break. They bring out these little finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Everyone sits around for a few minutes, with their pinkies in the air, drinking. It's so cultured.
Jonathan Silverman
#37. 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
#38. Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
Okakura Kakuzo
#40. Looking out at the lake, drinking good tea. That's his only luxury.
And what an enormous luxury that was.
Banana Yoshimoto
#41. When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#42. I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#43. All I really want to do is spend my life traveling the world, reading books that take my breath away, drinking all kinds of tea and occasionally write something. I mean is that too much to ask for?
Anonymous
#44. With a few exceptions, conservative Christian political activists are as ineffective as White Russian exiles, drinking tea from samovars in their Paris drawing rooms, plotting the restoration of the monarchy. One wishes them well but knows deep down that they are not the future.
Rod Dreher
#45. For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual;
Thomas De Quincey
#46. Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.
George Gissing
#47. Disciples and devotees ... what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
Wei Wu Wei
#48. I used to get tired of drinking iced tea, so I'd ask my wife if we had some lemonade, and I would just dump it right in there.
Arnold Palmer
#49. The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.
Paula Deen
#50. Most problems could be diminished by the drinking of tea and the thinking through of things that could be done while tea was being drunk. And even if that did not solve problems, at least it could put them off for a little while, which we sometimes needed to do, we really did.
Alexander McCall Smith
#51. Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?
Condoleezza Rice
#52. I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
Patti Smith
#53. Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.
Richard Simmons
#54. Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. I was drinking a cup of tea. I actually enjoyed tea. It was so much better than coffee. It tasted like comfort.
Matt Haig
#56. The method of drinking tea at this stage was primitive in the extreme. The leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made into a cake, and boiled together with rice, ginger, salt, orange peel, spices, milk, and sometimes with onions!
Okakura Kakuzo
#57. That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.
Miranda July
#58. Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.
Paul Reps
#59. I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
Jackie Chan
#60. Tea? Good God, no. It's mud. How the British ever built an empire drinking the filthy stuff is beyond me. And if we carry on drinking it, I've no doubt that the empire won't last much longer. No, a civilized person drinks coffee.
Charlie Higson
#61. I'm a deeply boring person in real life; I don't do any drinking and going out until four in the morning. I'll usually head straight home for a cup of tea.
Bonnie Langford
#62. Drinking tea is like kissing your dog. It's warm and wet, sure, but where's the kick? If I need to, I'll just pick up another Venti at the Starbucks and use the bathroom there.
William Lashner
#63. I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#64. Drinking tea is as sacred as doing yoga. Sleeping silently, relaxed, is as sacred as prayer. Looking at a tree, talking to a friend, walking early in the morning, working in the factory or in the office, is as holy as anything else. This is the understanding that is needed for Tao to happen.
Osho
#65. Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.
Sen No Rikyu
#67. When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be reasonable, middle-aged guys drinking organic tea talking about semiotics.
Moby
#68. Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.
Rachel Hawkins
#69. You're breathing the same air as a bunch of pill-popping manic depressives, alcoholics, and schizophrenics. You've been drinking tea with a bunch of crazy teenage washouts. It seems I'm the only sane one here.
Kirkland Ciccone
#70. He felt that alcohol, cigarettes and the occasional cannabis joint was quite enough. There was no need to add caffeine to the list of health risks he put his body through."-Drake Kingsley's reason for not drinking tea or coffee, The Venetian Violinist.
Marcio Goncalves
#72. I love America for its bourgeois comfort. If I was as heavily in debt as they are, I wouldn't be drinking tea or coffee anywhere. I would be sipping tap water from an old bottle and serving others tea or coffee in a cafe somewhere.
Vann Chow
#73. I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.
Daniel Tosh
#74. The people we choose not to forgive will move one. They'll get over it. meanwhile the person who refuses to forgive is like a tea bag steeping so long that even 10 spoons of sugar wouldn't make the bitterness worth drinking.
Marilyn Grey
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