Drinking Tea Quotes:

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

- George Gissing

topic: Drinking, Tea, Leisure, Drinking Tea, Tea Drinking

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.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Inspirational, Time, Axes, Mindful Living, Peace Is Every Step

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

- Henry James

topic: Life, Tea, Literature, Green Tea, Optimistic Life

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: War, Drinking, Fighting, Drinking Tea, Tea Drinking

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Drinking, Thinking, People, Drinking Tea, Tea Drinking

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

- Okakura Kakuzo

source: Kakuzo Okakura (2008). “The Book of Tea”, p.43, Applewood Books

topic: Life, Art, Drinking, Drinking Tea, Tea Drinking

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

topic: Life, Tea Drinking, Live In The Moment, Mindful Living, Drinking Tea

what you don't know, you don't miss

- Cecelia Ahern

source: Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

topic: Missing, Twists, Joy Luck Club, Drawn Together, Drinking Tea

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

- Gary Snyder

topic: Coffee, Dirty, Beer, Drink Milk, Drinking Tea

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

- J. B. Priestley

topic: Revenge, Rivers, Yellow, Drinking Tea, Coffee And Tea

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Mistake, Food, Wine, Vineyards, Old Wine

I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

- Zola Budd

topic: Home, Tea, Atmosphere, Drinking Tea, Tea Drinking

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

- Jackie Chan

topic: Drinking, Fighting, Tea, Drinking Tea, Fighting Each Other

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

topic: Drinking, Tired, Blow, Caravans, Drinking 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

topic: Drinking, Hands, Tea, Drinking Tea, Lilac

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

topic: Drinking, Coffee, Hands, Little Hands, Drinking Tea

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

topic: Dog, Drinking, Class, English Class, Fourth Grade

Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.

- Bob Hope

topic: Drinking, Kissing, Tea, Drinking Tea, Tea Drinking

I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.

- Bobby McFerrin

source: "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

topic: Song, Drinking, Silly, Drinking Tea

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

topic: Real, Drinking, Writing, Drinking Tea, Glass Houses

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

- Laini Taylor

topic: Dream, Powerful, Drinking, Sticking Out, Drinking Tea

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

source: Miss Read (2002). “Gossip from Thrush Green”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Drinking, Past, Sight, Drinking Tea

Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living. And each part, each moment of living, is meaningful. You just have to be there; otherwise, who is going to experience the meaning? People go on drinking tea, but they never are there; their minds are wandering all over the world.

- Rajneesh

topic: Meaningful, Morning, Drinking, Morning Walk, Drinking Tea

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

topic: Drinking, Doctors, Tea, Badgers, Drinking Tea

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

topic: Dad, Drinking, Doors, Drinking Tea