Tea quotes

I take pleasure in tea, appreciating it with my spirit and therefore cannot explain why. ~Sen Joo

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. ~Abraham Lincoln

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. ~Audrey Hepburn

In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. ~Sydney Smith

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. ~Henry David Thoreau

Tea should be taken in solitude... ~C.S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C. S. Lewis

If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. ~Elie Wiesel

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A. Milne

Japanese

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. ~Yoshio Taniguchi

The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup. ~Okakura Kakuzō

Tea with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.... Teaism was Taoism in disguise. ~Okakura Kakuzō

In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius... ~Okakura Kakuzō

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.... It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. ~Okakura Kakuzō