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“Tea is best when enjoyed in pleasant surroundings, whether indoors or out, where the atmosphere is tranquil, the setting harmonious.” – John Blofeld
“Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.” – Catherine Douzel
“If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited, it will calm you.” – William Ewart Gladstone
“Tea is balm for the soul, don’t you agree?” – P. L. Travers
“Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.” – James Norwood Pratt
“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.” – Alexander Pushkin
“Come along inside… We’ll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.” – Kenneth Grahame
“Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.” – Letitia Baldrige
“The ‘art of tea’ is a spiritual force for us to share.” – Alexandra Stoddard
“Tea is to the body as music is to the soul.” – Earlene Grey
“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.” – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“Great love affairs start with champagne and end with tisane.” – Honoré de Balzac
“I got nasty habits – I take tea at three.” – Mick Jagger
“No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served.” – Earlene Grey
“Tea cannot be learned from a book, only from the heart.” – Sochi
“The very act of preparing and serving tea encourages conversation. The little spaces in time created by teatime rituals call out to be filled with conversation. Even the tea itself–warm and comforting–inspires a feeling of relaxation and trust that fosters shared confidences.” – Emilie Barnes
“A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.” – Mary Lou Heiss
“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.” – Lin Yutang
“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.” – Frances Hardinge
“Tea is a part of daily life. It is as simple as eating when hungry and drinking when thirsty.” – Yamamoto Soshun
“Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea?” – Noel Coward
“Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.” – Thomas de Quincey
“If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.” – Japansese Proverb
“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.” – Alice Walker
“Coffee isn’t my cup of tea.” – Samuel Goldwyn
“A cup of tea would restore my normality.” – Douglas Adams
“A cup of tea is an excuse to share great thoughts with great minds.” – Cristina Re
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.” – Muriel Barbery
“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.” – Jane Austen
“There is no problem on earth that can’t be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.” – Jasper Fforde
“Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?” – James M. Barrie
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C. S. Lewis
“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.” – Frances Hardinge
“If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.” – William Ewart Gladstone
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” – Henry James
“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be diminished by a nice cup of tea.” – Bernard-Paul Heroux
“The Chinese say it’s better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.” – Khaled Hosseini
“It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.” – Agnes Repplier
“Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.” – Edmund Waller
“Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.” – William Cowper
“All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.” – George Orwell
“You have arrived at a propitious moment, coincident with your country’s one indisputable contribution to Western Civilization: Afternoon tea” – Hugo Drax, Moonraker
“Tea is one of the mainstays of civilization in this country.” – George Orwell
“Tea brings time to a crawl, its frantic pace resuming on noticing our empty cups.” – Terri Guillemets
“Tea will take you there.” – Ags Sachs
“Do not gulp the tea but sip it slowly allowing its fragrance to fill your mouth. There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness.” – Pojong Sunim
“The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.” – Arthur Gray
“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.” – Osho
“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.” – Muriel Barbery
“When you are drinking tea, it is basically a private conversation between the tea and your individual soul.” – Lu Ann Pannunzio
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!” – Agatha Christie
“Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.” – Jonathan Stroud
“In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea…the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.” – George Gigging
“If at first, you don’t succeed, have a cup of tea.” – Peter Scott
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” – Bill Watterson
“Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.” – Chinese Proverb
“Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher.” – Chinese Proverb
“I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.” – Sydney Smith
“Tea is the elixir of life.” – Lao Tzu