Quotes About Tea

I love tea in all of the varieties I have ever tried. I have enjoyed a number of brewed cups of black, green, and herbal teas over the course of my life. Tea parties are especially fun, as is going to a specialty tea house to enjoy a cup of tea. It is hard to decide if I like those things more, or just a cup of herbal tea at the end of a long day. Regardless, I thought these quotes were fun to read, and perhaps fun to recall at your next tea party or celebration.

Now is as good of a time as any, to brew and pour yourself a nice cup of hot or iced tea!

"It keeps the eye wakeful, the head clear, animates the intellectual powers." Thomas Short, Discourse on Tea

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

"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

"They sat down to tea- the same party round the same table- how often it had been collected! - and how often had her eyes fallen on the same shrubs in the lawn, and observed the same beautiful effect of the western sun!" Jane Austen, Emma

"The most trying hours in life are between four o'clock and the evening meal. A cup of tea at this time adds a lot of comfort and happiness." Royal S. Copeland

"Drink you 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

"Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage." Okakura Kakuzo

"Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept." Frances Hardinge

"Top off the tea... it lubricates the grey matter." Good Neighbors, quotes from Stash Tea

"With melted snow I boil fragrant tea." Mencius, Mencius

"You can't get a cup of tea large enough, or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis, quoted by Walter Hooper

"It feels so good to have a friend on whom you can depend. A friend can help to mend a heart, boost you toward a brand new start, clown with carefree, schoolgirl glee, share a quiet cup of tea." Jan Miller Girando

"Make tea, not war." Monty Python

"You're going out for tea today, be careful what you do; Let all accounts that I hear be pleasant ones of you." Kate Greenaway (By the way, Kate Greenaway is one of my all time favorite illustrators. She is amazing.

"Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest." Ueda Akinari

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

"Do not pass here when you look for good tea. Look, smell and taste as you wish, but take some along." From a sign in an eighteenth century tea shop.

"Cambric tea was hot water and milk, with only a taste of tea in it, but little girls felt grown-up when their mothers let them drink cambric tea." Laura Ingalls Wilder, "The Long Winter."

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

"Doing nothing is respectable at tea." Saying quotes in Sasaki Sanmi, Sado Saijiki

"A friend of mine who grew up alongside a samovar has only one way to describe a proper water for tea: 'A mad boil!'" M.F.K. Fisher, "The art of eating."

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

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

"Tell me gypsy, what can you see in my cup of tea? Can you predict my future, tell me my past?" Anonymous

"Today I'd like to sit and sip, forget about the world a bit, Ignore the things I have to do, and just enjoy a cup or two." Author Unknown

"Tea is a divine herb." Xu Guangqi

"The tea table offered an anomalous and picturesque repast; and on leaving it they all sat and talked in the large piazza, or wandered about the garden in the starlight." Henry James, The Europeans

"A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water." A Chinese Proverb

"Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary." Chinese proverb

"Your Aunt D'Aubert instructed me to give you this little tea set as a gift from her." ....The delighted Sophie took the tray with its six cups, teapot, silver sugar bowl, and creamer. - Comtesse d'Segur, Les Malheurs de Sophie

"The true art of giving a wedding breakfast is to introduce as much variety in the menu as possible, and to tempt the appetite with light and appetisant delicacies." Anonymous, "Party Giving on Every Scale"

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

"When sorrows frown what power can cheer, or chase away the falling tear, like Pekoe or Bohea. What make the old many young and strong like Hyson, Congou, or Souchong." Anonymous, "The cup for me."

"He'd never in his life been so hungry and tired. What wouldn't he give for a simple mug of tea and a humble fried egg sandwich?" Jacqueline Kelly in Return to the Willows

"Come little cottage girl, you seem to want a cup of tea: and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me." Barry Pain

"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"

"having picked some tea, he drank it, then he sprouted wings, and flew to a fairy mansion, to escape the emptiness of the world.... " Chiao Jen

"I'm writing this in bed. Living here is very luxurious, my breakfast tray set with the most beautiful Limoges china...." Oswald Wynd, The Ginger Tree

"I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of a table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know." L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

"Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea." Author unknown

"Nursery Tea Today, two o'clock sharp. All dolls, stuffed animals, toys and pets invited." Mary Engelbreit

"Where there's tea there's hope." Arthur Wing Pinero

I thought it would be fun to share at least one recipe here with the quotes I have found. This is great to have for any get together, but especially for a "tea." In fact, my mother wanted the recipe recently again, to have for her friends birthday tea party. It was the lady's favorite thing at the tea! It is so simple, that I will never be without it.

Simple and Easy Tea Cakes:

I package of white cake mix - follow directions to make a cake until you get to the point of mixing the batter.

Once batter is ready to put into a cake pan, simply scoop a very small amount of the cake batter into a cupcake or muffin tin. You are basically making very short cupcakes, not even an inch tall. Try to put the same amount into each pan, and cook until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Just a few minutes.

Have prepared a cinnamon sugar mixture. Melt some butter or margarine, and dip the tops of the little cakes into the butter. Or, you can brush butter over the tops. Then dip each cake into the cinnamon sugar. Place on waxed paper layers in an airtight container until ready to serve.

These are great to have prepared ahead, and look so cute with your other tea time treats. Put out on a tiered set of plates, or a pretty tray with garnishes of your choice. They are so simple and yummy!