Tea Quotes

994 Tea quotes by 709 unique authors

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river. — Steve Martin
Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam… — Gerald Durrell
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? — Rupert Brooke
I gestured my frustration. “I don’t know. She’s much better already. She wasn’t talking half an hour ago. Look at her now.” We all turned,… — Kim Harrison
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting… — Anthony Bourdain
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… — Gary Snyder
They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but… — Libba Bray
I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her… — Cassandra Clare
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in… — Muriel Barbery
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come… — Muriel Barbery
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming… — Paul Verlaine
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am… — Winston Churchill
unfortunately, we're all out of bitter evange at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing — Cassandra Clare
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be… — Muriel Barbery
Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans! — Charlaine Harris
Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of… — Louise Rennison
Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one… — Muriel Barbery
In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas,… — Dorothy Parker
If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a… — Zadie Smith
The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated,… — Christopher Isherwood
Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? — Neil Gaiman
It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be… — Ray Bradbury
Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a… — Julia Quinn
She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind. — Roddy Doyle
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their… — Ray Bradbury

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