Tea Quotes
Here’s just a selection of tea quotes I’ve found on my travels – there will be more to come soon:
A nice factual quote to start off with from Ralph
There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
An Englishmans tea
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ~Alice Walker
From the late, great Japanese author on tea
Tea…is a religion of the art of life. ~ Okakura Kakuzō
Told you tea and sugar were meant to be
A man without a mustasche is like a cup of tea without sugar. – English Proverb
Similar to apples – but much better…
Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. – Chinese Proverb
For the Star Trek fans
“Computer:
Tea,
Earl Gray,
Hot.” – Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek TNG (played by Patrick Stewart)
Gladstone PM knew his stuff
“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.” – Gladstone (UK Primeminister 1865)
Tea solves everything
“If he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea…and turn it on!” – Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
And a proud thing it is too.
“You have arrived at a propitious moment, coincident with your country’s one indisputable contribution to Western civilisation – afternoon tea”. – Hugo Drax (James Bond: Moonraker)
Immortality? Pah!
“I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.” – Lu T’ung
I want more tea
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” – Henry James (The Portrait of a Lady)
Wise words indeed
“Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on.” – Billy Connolly
Here here!!
“Make tea not war” – Monty Python
Never a truer word spoken
Tea es todo y tea es la vida! [Tea is everything and tea is life!] – Unknown
The Japanese knew their tea
“If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.” – Japanese Proverb
Don’t forget to check back soon when I’ll be adding some more.
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