Quotes About Tea

When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.

I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent visits, I'd find the packets decorating the shelves in my parents' dining room.

I do a lot of vocal exercises and drink hot tea, which I hate.

And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.

The great tea masters were concerned to make of the divine wonder an experienced moment; then out of the teahouse the influence was carried into the home; and out of the home distilled into the nation. During the long and peaceful Tokugawa period (1603-1868), before the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854, the texture of Japanese life became so imbued with significant formalization that existence to the slightest detail was a conscious expression of eternity, the landscape itself a shrine. p144

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

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

Years later, when Idi Amin said and did outrageous things, I understood that his motivation was to rattle the good people of Greenwich mean time, have them raise their heads from their tea and scones, and say, Oh yes. Africa. For a fleeting moment they'd have the same awareness of us that we had of them.

Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee

There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness. The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind.

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

Tea without sugar just wasn't done. Or at least not talked about in polite society. Like French kissing your first cousin.

I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?

I used to go to tea at the St. Regis with Dali. I was standing there and Mr. Dali walked over to me and asked if I would like to have tea with him and Truman Capote. Normally if a person would come up to you in a magazine store and ask you to have tea, you'd run, wouldn't you? But I sort of had a feeling that this was legitimate.

I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.

I love the British.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

los pétalos de la flor del cactus se cosechan, secan y posteriormente se venden sueltos o en bolsitas de té, cápsulas o extracto líquido.

Its hold was loaded with coffee, rice, tea, oil seeds and jute. Black smoke poured from its one stack, darkening the hot cloudless sky. Alexander

On the contrary, he would come home and rail at both parties with great wrath—and plainly proved one day to the satisfaction of my wife, and three old ladies who were drinking tea with her, that the two parties were like two rogues, each tugging at the skirt of the nation; and that in the end they would tear the very coat off its back, and expose its nakedness.

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!

Tea was only a medium to transport honey

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

mixture of gardenia and something earthy like tea leaves—and