Tea Drinking Quotes

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  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

  Cheer, Coffee And Tea, Cups Of Tea

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• 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

  Inspirational, Time, Rushing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

  Henry James

  Life, Coffee And Tea, Afternoon

  1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

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• There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

  Gary Snyder

  Coffee, Dirty, Beer

  Gary Snyder, “There Are Those Who Love To Get Dirty”

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• Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Tea Party, Fine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

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• Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

  George Gissing

  Drinking, Tea, Leisure

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Exercise, Cake, Relax

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.653

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• Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Art, Drinking

  Kakuzo Okakura (2008). “The Book of Tea”, p.43, Applewood Books

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• 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

  Water, Needs, Firsts

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• I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, War, Drinking

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• Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Drinking, Tea, Devotee

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• Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Cups Of Tea, Evening

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Live In The Moment, Mindfulness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.

  Bob Hope

  Drinking, Kissing, Tea

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• I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

  Zola Budd

  Home, Atmosphere, Cows

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• 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

  Morning, Food, Years

  Review in the 'Literary Magazine' vol. 2, no. 13 (1757)

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• Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

  Nancy Astor

  Husband, Drinking, Beer

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• Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

  George Orwell

  Country, Civilization, Tea

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

  Condoleezza Rice

  Drinking, Thinking, People

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• When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Drinking, Coffee

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.45, Penguin

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• Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

  Christina Stead

  Drinking, Europe, Tea

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.419, The Miegunyah Press

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• As loud as fans were , they need to go home now and start soaking up a lot of tea, drinking a lot of tea for the next 36 hours, whatever the case may be, 'cause they need to be just as loud Thursday night.

  LeBron James

  Drinking, Home, Night

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

  Norman Douglas

  Drinking, Reading, Tea

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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• I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.

  William Cobbett

  Drinking, Beer, Views

  "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.

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• China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, Drinking, Coffee

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