1.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
2.
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
3.
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
4.
I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.
Zola Budd
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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.
Nhat Hanh
9.
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
George Orwell
10.
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
11.
Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.
Nhat Hanh