Tea Quotes

“I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.”
― Louise Penny , Still Life

“But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

“Now that lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fingers while she talks.
"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see."
I smile, of course,
And go on drinking tea.”
― T.S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations

“..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

“Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released the general and patted him on the shoulder. "Tea and cake first, don't you think?”
― Donita K. Paul, DragonQuest

“That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.”
― Sophie Divry, Signatura 400

“We are having hot lesbian sex... and by sex we mean tea but it's still hot.”
― ananymous

“As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmares, to wit, a cup of hot tea.*
* The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“This is my heart—carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Cities of Coin and Spice

“Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible.”
― L.L. Barkat, The Novelist

“And listen--tell your friend to try English Breakfast net time. It's a little more robust. Earl Grey is really more of a 'Sense and Sensibility' kind of tea.
Cab driver to J.D. Jameson”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“She gave in to a hankering for a cup of tea even though she knew that the idea of a cup of tea-sitting still, calmly sipping-was more appealing than actually sitting still and trying to calmly sip.”
― Maryanne O'Hara, Cascade

“No, she did not want to go to hospital. Yes, she would like a cup of tea. Only then did she begin to think rationally again.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“Do ghosts drink tea?

They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely.”
― Roddy Doyle, A Greyhound of a Girl

“Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.”
― Kate Harper , The Marquis at Midnight

“Stands the clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?”
― Rupert Brooke, The old vicarage, Grantchester

“Have tea, might write,” Laura returned.”
― L.L. Barkat, The Novelist

“I grinned. "I'm anybody's for a cuppa and a biscuit.”
― David Stuart Davies, A Taste for Blood

“There is nothing so capital as a cup of tea for settling the Disheveled Nerves of Fair Ladies.”
― Joan Bassington-French, Christmas at the Tittletons

“nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.”
― Shana Abe, The Sweetest Dark

“Charming, charming,' the lawyer said at intervals.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Pierre et Jean

“Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
Another for the pot!”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay

“Her tea basket was still lost, but that didn’t seem to matter now. People used to eat loose tea on long journeys. They’d pack it into hard little cakes they’d pull out later, to gnaw on while they warmed their hands by a fire. The tea provided physical sustenance, but it was also considered good for the soul.”
― L.L. Barkat, The Novelist

“Her face was like a pot of tea about to whistle.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story

“When may did so, he found every cup and saucer, plate, vase, and bowl standing arranged across the floor like pieces in a scaled-up chess game.
"The Whitstable family tree," Bryant explained, entering and setting down his tea tray. "It's the only way I could get it sorted out in my head. I had to see them properly laid out, who was descended from whom." He pointed to a milk jug. "Daisy Whitstable is bottom left-hand corner, by the fireguard. Next to her is the egg cup, brother Tarquin... Now, pass me Marion and Alfred Whitstable over there."
"What's their significance?"
"We need them to drink out of.”
― Christopher Fowler, Seventy-Seven Clocks

“One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.

“Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the British empire,” Laura returned.

“Writing for me,” Megan had typed.

“I’ll write you a tea fortune.”

“No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good.”
― L.L. Barkat

“Vol picks up the cup of tea in both hands and takes a long sip. Mm, grass-clippings. Her favourite.”
― Nenia Campbell, Endgame

“Этот чай действительно показался Свану, совершенно так же, как и Одетте, необыкновенно изысканным, и любовь чувствует такую потребность находить себе подкрепление, гарантию длительности, в наслаждениях, которые, напротив, без любви не существовали бы и прекращаются вместе с концом ее, что, покинув ее в семь часов, чтобы возвратиться домой и переодеться к вечеру, он не мог сдержать радости, доставленной ему часами, проведенными у Одетты, и всю дорогу повторял себе, сидя в своей двухместной карете: «Как приятно, однако, было бы иметь вот такую особу, у которой всегда можно было бы найти столь редкую вещь, как действительно вкусный чай».”
― Марсель Пруст, Du côté de chez Swann

“The taste you will find in the chest of Tea you won't be able to find it in any other chest.”
― S.N