There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~Author Unknown
Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel
Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. ~Bernard-Paul Heroux
Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. ~Author Unknown
If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you. ~Gladstone, 1865
We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
~Rudyard Kipling
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. ~Hilaire Belloc
Tea is a cup of life. ~Author Unknown
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment. ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. ~George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
Tea should be taken in solitude. ~C.S. Lewis
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
Tea is liquid wisdom. ~Anonymous
Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. ~Saki
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ~Alice Walker
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ~Thich Nat Hahn
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ~Samuel Johnson
O' peppermint tea -
two delights per sip
as steamy hot as passion
cool as a wintry lake dip
~Astrid Alauda
Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage - leave sagacity to the autumn! ~Linda Solegato
Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths. ~John Egerton
Tea...is a religion of the art of life. ~Okakura
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. ~George Orwell, "A Nice Cup of Tea"
Tea does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapours which the head invade
And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
~Edmund Waller, "Of Tea"
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A.A. Milne
tea leaves
tea loves
loves tea
lives tea
leaves tea?
never.
~Uniek Swain
Top off the tea... it lubricates the grey matter. ~Good Neighbors, quoted from stashtea.com
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right. ~Terri Guillemets
Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings! ~Author Unknown
Tea is instant wisdom - just add water! ~Astrid Alauda
When the news reporter said "Shopkeepers are opening their doors bringing out blankets and cups of tea" I just smiled. It's like yes. That's Britain for you. Tea solves everything. You're a bit cold? Tea. Your boyfriend has just left you? Tea. You've just been told you've got cancer? Tea. Coordinated terrorist attack on the transport network bringing the city to a grinding halt? Tea dammit! And if it's really serious, they may bring out the coffee. The Americans have their alert raised to red, we break out the coffee. That's for situations more serious than this of course. Like another England penalty shoot-out. ~Jslayeruk, as posted on Metaquotes Livejournal, in response to the July 2005 London subway bombings
The first sip of tea is the always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion. ~Terri Guillemets
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis
"When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, colouring and saturating it...then a glass will be filled and poured back into the mixture, blending it further. Then comes waiting. Motionless waiting. Finally, from high up, like some green cataract whose sight and sound mesmerize, the tea will once again cascade into a glass. Now it can be drunk, dreamily, forehead bowed, fingers held wide away from the scalding glass."
-Simone Jacquemard, Le Mariage Berbere
"He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There's something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes the way I imagine the Far East must taste."
-Peter Hoeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
"A Little Princess...it's always tea-time... " -Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together." - Jackie Chan, Rumble in the Bronx
"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. And whoever this "Earl Grey" fellow is, I'd like to have a word with him... "
-Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek, The Next Generation
"Deep Space 9 Pour me a little more tea, would you dear? I can drink it till it comes out of my ears."
-Garek, Star Trek,
"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea." -William Gladstone, British Prime Minister.
"My dear, if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs." -Charles Dickens
"[I am] a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of the fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning. -Samuel Johnson
"The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane." -Joseph Addison
"Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth" -Alexander Puskin
"Tea with lemon please" -Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
A little cup of friendship
With a bag of tea
When you drink this
Think of love from me.
source unknown
I wish we could sit down together
And have a cup of tea
But since we can’t
When you have this one
I hope you’ll think of me.
source unknown
Tea that helps our head and heart.
Tea medicates most every part.
Tea rejuvenates the very old.
Tea warms the hands of those who're cold.
J. Jonker, Amsterdam, circa 1670
Poem for Thank You card - with teabag enclosed
A cup of tea to say Thank You,
For all the things you've done.
And wishes that the day will bring,
You happiness and fun
Poem for card - to show you care - with teabag enclosed
If I could take your Troubles,
I would toss them in the Sea.
But since I can't, I'm sending you,
My favourite cup of tea.
From The Beatles "All Too Much"
"Sail me on a silver sun
Where I know that I'm free
Show me that I'm everywhere
And get me home for tea"
Marlene Dietrich ~ Marlene Dietrich's A B C. - Revised Ed. - New York : Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1984. - p. 154
"The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently and nothing can be done, and no move made, until "a nice cup of tea" is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not so tea-conscious. World-peace conferences would run more smoothly if "a nice cup of tea", or indeed, a samovar were available at the proper time."
Attributed to both Eleanor Roosevelt and Nancy Reagan
Women are like tea bags. They don't know how strong they are until they get into hot water.
Noel Coward
Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?"
Sting, from "Englishman in New York"
"I don't drink coffee, I take tea my dear"
Mick Jagger
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
I found this YouTube slideshow which I hope you enjoy. It has many levels of meaning but with the deepest being the benefits of tea. I hope you can spare the time to watch it to the end.
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