Tea Quotes

994 Tea quotes by 709 unique authors

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea. — Dodie Smith
Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really… — Barbara Pym
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been… — Soren Kierkegaard
I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take… — Frank McCourt
I appealed to my mother. I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said, Arrah, for… — Frank McCourt
Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again! — Lewis Carroll
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in… — Pearl Cleage
I won't get killed,' Rose protested. Is that a promise?' Fish asked dryly, stirring his tea. 'If you break your word, I'll never believe you… — Regina Doman
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. — A A Milne
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. — George Orwell
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… — Rudyard Kipling
Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves. — Kelly Link
From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day… — Nhat Hanh
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. — Lin Yutang
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea… — Anna Quindlen
We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can… — Greg Mortenson
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. — Wilkie Collins
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance… — Charles Dickens
God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was… — Jack Kerouac
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were… — Nancy Mitford
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging,… — Neil Gaiman
When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in… — Markus Zusak
Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs… — Arundhati Roy

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