Top 11 Tea Drinking Quotes

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Henry James

Life, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

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 E. Gladstone

Cheer, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.

Sen no Rikyu

Tea Drinking, Water, Needs

I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

Zola Budd

Home, Tea Drinking, Atmosphere

I am 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

Morning, Food, Tea Drinking

Review in the 'Literary Magazine' vol. 2, no. 13 (1757)

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Samuel Johnson

Exercise, Cake, Tea Drinking

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.653