Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"

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

The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ~Lu Yu

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, 1865

Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yiheng

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. ~Mick Jagger

We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
~Rudyard Kipling

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." ~Lewis Carroll,Alice in Wonderland

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~Author Unknown

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervouse sensibilities...will always be the favored beverage of the intellectual. ~Thomas DeQuincy (1875-1959) Confession of an English Opium Eater

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel

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

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

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. ~Bernard-Paul Heroux

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith

My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Africa I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead. ~Theodore Roosevelt

The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right. ~Terri Guillemets

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb

Tea...is a religion of the art of life. ~Okakura

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment. ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. ~George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Tea should be taken in solitude. ~C.S. Lewis

...She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. ~ Clive Barker

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea. ~Charles Dickens

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

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. ~Saki

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ~Alice Walker

Tea does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapours which the head invade
And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
~Edmund Waller

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on. ~Billy Connolly

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~Honoré de Balzac

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A.A. Milne

Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings! ~Author Unknown

Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. ~Colley Cibber, Lady's Last Stake

"Poor Mrs. Benefer," Heather murmured. "Well, a nice cup of tea and she'll be right as rain.""Oh, puh-leeze, Heather. A nice cup of tea, indeed. A nice cup of tea, two Prozac, and sleep for a week, maybe..." ~C.C. Benison, Death at Sandringham House