Tea Quotes

994 Tea quotes by 709 unique authors

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I… — Oscar Wilde
Question your tea spoons. — Georges Perec
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the… — Nhat Hanh
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There… — Virginia Woolf
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea… — Ann Patchett
Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every… — Jordan Sonnenblick
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?"… — Douglas Adams
Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices… — Lewis Carroll
From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this… — Bret Easton Ellis
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed,… — Thomas de Quincey
Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. — Lewis Carroll
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. — Sydney Smith
He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu. — Anne Lamott
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak… — Neil Gaiman
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care… — Joan Didion
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and… — Lewis Carroll
Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea. — George Harrison
It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of… — Michael Chabon
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by… — Virginia Woolf
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country… — Greg Mortenson
Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay.… — Gretchen Rubin

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