From Lu Yu to Woody Allen to Sting, here is a variety of quotes about tea to amuse and inspire.

"Sail me on a silver sun Where I know that I'm free Show me that I'm everywhere And get me home for tea." ~The Beatles "All Too Much"

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” ~Henry Fielding

"Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things." ~Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea

“Lovely Rita, Meter Maid May I inquire discreetly? When are you free to take some tea With me?” ~The Beatles, Lovely Rita

"Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven." ~Lu Yu,"The Classic of Tea", trans. F. Carpenter

"After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with. He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.” ~Douglas Adams, Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea." ~Lu T'ung

“Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: 'One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time.'” ~Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabit

"Where there's tea there's hope." ~Sir Arthur Pinero "The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement." ~Arthur Gray

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

"You want a tea?" "No, I want romance. I want music. I want love and beauty." "But not tea, eh? Amazing..." ~Woody Allen, The Kugelmass Episode

"I don't drink coffee, I take tea my dear." ~Sting, Englishman in New York “It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” ~Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales

"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 (a.k.a. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Alice in Wonderland

"Four O'clock is time for for tea. The world can wait until five." ~Cicely Rude

“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.” ~Sidney Smith

"Make tea not war." ~Monty Python’s Flying Circus (On the backs of the Hell’s Grannies’ jackets.)

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

"If he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea...and turn it on!" ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Matrons, who toss the cup and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.” ~Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

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

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

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