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Tea Quote #1

(Malory, unhopeful: I don't suppose you have any tea? Jesse: DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING? Malory: Oh, sweet heavens!)
Maggie Stiefvater

Tea Quote #2

..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
Clive Barker
Tea Quote #3

Not tea but blood!
Ann Leckie
Tea Quote #4

At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.
Robert Godden
Tea Quote #5

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.
Okakura Kakuzo
Tea Quote #6

A cat purring on your lap while you sip hot tea, is there anything better? Oh, and you’re floating in a zero gravity environment.
Jarod Kintz
Tea Quote #7

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind.
John Blofeld
Tea Quote #8

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what
the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general
resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.
Charles Dickens
Tea Quote #9

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.
Phoebe Stone
Tea Quote #10

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 scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
Samuel Johnson
Tea Quote #11

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
Sydney Smith
Tea Quote #12

A rack of mugs rested alongside. There were two hand-drawn labels affixed to the decanters. “Happy Tea!” read one, above a drawing of a wide-eyed, grinning Human with frizzy hair standing on end. “Boring Tea,” read the other. The Human drawn there looked content, but indifferent.
Becky Chambers
Tea Quote #13

A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.
Mary Lou Heiss
Tea Quote #14

A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.
Fennel Hudson
Tea Quote #15

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.
Neil Gaiman
Tea Quote #16

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!
Jerome K. Jerome
Tea Quote #17

Afternoon tea needn’t stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense. How much more we enjoy life when the pretenses are discarded!
Paul F. Kortepeter
Tea Quote #18

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
Isabella Beeton
Tea Quote #19

Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.
Flora Thompson
Tea Quote #20

An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love of tea.
Tom Standage
Tea Quote #21

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage
Virginia Woolf
Tea Quote #22

And listen--tell your friend to try English Breakfast net time. It's a little more robust. Earl Grey is really more of a 'Sense and Sensibility' kind of tea.
Cab driver to J.D. Jameson
Julie James
Tea Quote #23

And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.
Jonah Winter
Tea Quote #24

And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.
Martha Grimes
Tea Quote #25

As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.
Sergei Lukyanenko
Tea Quote #26

As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmares, to wit, a cup of hot tea.*
* The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact.
Terry Pratchett
Tea Quote #27

As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night’s velvet slippers

I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.
Sanober Khan
Tea Quote #28

Astonishing how tea opens the ears.
Michelle Franklin
Tea Quote #29

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.
Christine Feehan
Tea Quote #30

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan

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