Tea Drinking Quotes:

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

topic: Tea Drinking, People, Tea Party, Sweet Tea

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

source: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.653

topic: Exercise, Cake, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea, Studious

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

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.

- William E. Gladstone

topic: Cheer, Tea, Calm, Chai, Coffee And Tea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

topic: Water, Tea, Firsts, Tea Drinking

Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.

- Wei Wu Wei

topic: Drinking, Tea, Teapots, Devotee, Tea Drinking

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

- George Orwell

topic: Country, Civilization, Tea, Tea Drinking

Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

- William Cowper

topic: Cheer, Tea, Cups, Shutters, Hissing

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 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 am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Morning, Years, Tea, Kettles, Drinkers

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

- Nancy Astor

topic: Husband, Alcohol, Poison, Your Husband, Wives And Mothers

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

- Condoleezza Rice

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

Ayahuasca is a brew that's made from the vine, which is the hallucinogenic element. And then there's also this leaf from a bush. And the vine is supposed to be the masculine and the bush is supposed to be the feminine, and this female shaman did a tea drinking ceremony with us, where we drank Wyoosa. And the intention was to go and find pieces of your soul that were missing and bring them back to your body so you could live more fully with yourself and it's called soul retrieval.

- Larkin Grimm

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Drinking, Ayahuasca, Missing, Tea Drinking

America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain tradition, for centuries, but this is America! The American tea lover is heir to all the world's tea drinking traditions, from Japanese tea ceremonies to Russian samovars to English scones in the afternoon. India chai, China green, you name it and we can claim it and make it ours. And that's just what we are doing. In this respect, ours is the most innovative and exciting tea scene anywhere.

- James Norwood Pratt

topic: Drinking, Names, America, Chai, Tea Ceremony

I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.

- William Cobbett

source: "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.

topic: Drinking, Beer, Views, Tea Drinking

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Country, Drinking, Coffee, Drinkers, Tea Drinking

As loud as fans were , they need to go home now and start soaking up a lot of tea, drinking a lot of tea for the next 36 hours, whatever the case may be, 'cause they need to be just as loud Thursday night.

- LeBron James

source: "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 10, 2015.

topic: Drinking, Home, Night, Tea Drinking, Thursday Night

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

- Christina Stead

source: Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.419, The Miegunyah Press

topic: Drinking, Europe, Tea, Robbers, Tea Drinking

When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.45, Penguin

topic: Real, Drinking, Coffee, Tea Drinking

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

source: Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.282, Courier Corporation

topic: Reading, Drinking, Tea, Puritanism, Tea Drinking