Tea

Make tea, not war. – Monty Python

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty. – James Norwood Pratt

The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured coziness. – P.G. Wodehouse

…I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than 20 weak ones. All true tea-lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes…. – George Orwell, “A Nice Cup of Tea,” Evening Standard, 12 January 1946

Tea is a divine herb. – Xu Guangqi

The sounds of the tea being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window. – Uson, quoted in Sasaki Sanmi, Sadô Saijiki

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. – Chinese Proverb

A cup of tea is a cup of peace. – Soshitsu Sen XV, quoted by Kenneth S. Cohen

Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher. – Chinese Proverb

Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. – Author Unknown

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. – Pojong Sunim

The froth of tea burns with brilliance. – Author Unknown

Ha, ha, ha: love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea. – Henry Fielding, “Love in Several Masques,” 1727 (Lady Matchless)

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. I can drink any quantity when I have not tasted wine; otherwise I am haunted by blue-devils by day, and dragons by night. – Sydney Smith, quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith: Volume I by his d

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

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves â€” slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. – Thich Nat Hahn

In vino Veritas. In Aqua satietas. In… What is the Latin for Tea? What! Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. – Hilaire Belloc, “On Tea,” 1908

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

[T]he Truth lies in a bowl of tea. – Nambo Sokei

[Tea] is a beverage which not only quenches thirst, but dissipates sorrow. – Changloo, c.828