Tea quotes can warm your soul, inspire you, or remind you of your most cherished tea memories.
Tea sayings and quotations can be used in so many ways – heartfelt additions to tea party invitations or as a special collection to give to a tea lover. If you have a favorite place to drink tea in your home, tea quotes stenciled on a wall would be a touching momento.
Read through this collection of tea quotations. Whether you’re looking for quotations about tea for a special occasion or for your personal discovery, you’re sure to find a tea saying that will touch your soul or lift your spirits.
Tea Quotes from Alice in Wonderland
“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.”
“You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”
“Nobody asked your opinion,” said Alice.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Yes, that’s it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it’s always tea time.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Tea Quotes on How to Drink Tea
“He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. ‘I am,’ he sighed deeply, ‘contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.'” – Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea
“Tea should be taken in solitude.” – C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
“The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured coziness.” – P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
“The daintiness and yet elegance of a china teacup focuses one to be gentle, to think warmly, and to feel close.” – Carol and Malcolm Cohen
“Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.” – Charles Lamb
“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.” – Alexander Pushkin
“What is the most wonderful thing for people like myself who follow the Way of Tea? My answer: the oneness of host and guest created through ‘meeting heart to heart’ and sharing a bowl of tea.” – Soshitsu Sen, Tea Life, Tea Mind
“The grandfather plants and raises the tea bushes, the father harvests the tea, and the son drinks it.” – Chinese Saying
“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 Quotes on Needing Tea
“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
“Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.” – Author Unknown
“When there’s tea there’s hope.” – Sir Arthur Pinero
Tea Quotes on the Love of Tea
“The path to heaven passes through a teapot.” – Ancient Proverb
“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.” – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“As the centerpiece of a cherished ritual, it’s a talisman against the chill of winter, a respite from the ho-hum routine of the day.” – Sarah Engler
“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?
How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
– Reverend Sydney Smith
“I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.” – Lu Tung
“Tea! Thou soft, thou sober
sage and verable liquid…
to whose glorious insipidity,
I owe the happiest moments of my life,
let me fall prostrate.”
– Colley Cibber
“Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea?” – Noel Coward
“Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.” – Catherine Douzel
“The music of tea is the melody that soothes me.” – Morgan Christiansen
Quotations on Tea and Friendship
“Teatime is by its very nature a combination of small luxuries arranged in social symmetry. And although tea for one is certainly a fine thing, the addition of a circle of dear friends to share it with ensures the whole is larger than the parts.” – Author Unknown
“Teapot is on, the cups are waiting,
Favorite chairs anticipating,
No matter what I have to do,
My friends, there’s always time for you.”
– Author Unknown
“What better way to suggest friendliness – and to create it – than with a cup of tea?” – J. Grayson Luttrell
Afternoon Tea Sayings
“I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o’clock.” – Oscar Wilde
“My copper kettle whistles merrily
And signals that it is time for tea.
The fine china cups are filled with the brew.
There’s lemon and sugar and sweet cream, too.
But, best of all there’s friendship, between you and me.
As we lovingly share our afternoon tea.”
– Marianna Arolin
“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.” – Wilkie Collines, The Woman in White
“Thousands of women, at this solemn afternoon hour, were sitting behind dainty porcelain and silver fittings, with their voices tinkling pleasantly in a cascade of solicitous little questions.” – Sake, Tea
“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.” – Alice Walker
Tea Quotes on Love and Romance
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” – Henry Fielding
“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.” – Honore de Balzac
Quotations on the Health Benefits of Tea
“Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.” – Chinese Proverb
“Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.” – T’ien Yiheng
“Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.” – Confucius
“My experience…convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Africa I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Tea does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapours which the head invade
And keeps that palace of the soul serene.”
– Edmund Waller, “Of 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 exhausted, it will clam you.”
– William Gladstone
Tea Quotes from Peter Pan
“This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat ’round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Winne the Pooh Sayings on Tea
“Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.” – A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
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