Eye Quote by George Crabbe

“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple, authentic and refined sensations, a license…

— Muriel Barbery

“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple,authentic and refined sensations, a license given…

— Muriel Barbery

“There is nothing so capital as a cup of tea for settling the Disheveled Nerves of Fair Ladies.”

— Joan Bassington-French

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

— Anonymous

“Pouring tea was just what she needed right now. Such a civilizing force, tea. She would nip sugar with little silver tongs. Stir milk…

— Tessa Dare

“Tea, for me, is one of the great subjects. It is a romatic trade, it does not pollute excessively, it has all sorts of…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Like Okakura, I know that tea is no minor beverage. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability…

— Muriel Barbery

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as…

— Okakura Kakuzo

“Iced tea! Nothing is half so refreshing as a glass of black tea piled high with ice! More than a quencher of thirst, it…

— Paul Kortepeter

“What part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly plant was introduced among us! Why myriads of women have cried…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“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…

— Samuel Johnson

“The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our…

— Kakuzō Okakura