Tea: everyone loves it. Credit: Creative Commons / Lauren Fan
Following on from last week’s part 1 of the best tea quotes, here is the next set of tea-friendly sayings found across the internet. This time, there is double the goodness of last time, with TEN whole quotes.
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Here goes…
“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 Rikyu, 15th Century Japanese tea master
“I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.”
Boy George
“Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.”
Tien Yiheng, Chinese philosopher
“American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It’s never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.”
Tom Holt, British novelist
“Tea does our fancy aid, repress those vapours which the head invade, and keeps that palace of the soul serene.”
Edmund Waller, British poet and politician
“Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.”
Author unknown
“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.”
Bernard Paul-Heroux, philosopher whose name appears on the only English-grown tea in 2006, Tregothnan
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
Henry James, American-born writer
“All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.”
George Orwell, in A Nice Cup of Tea
And finally, a quote suggested by the friendly Jo at Thomas Oken Tea Rooms:
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea”
Henry Fielding, English novelist
Do you know any great tea quotes that I haven’t included here? Leave a comment below or tweet me.
Aww, thanks for the mention Maria! And here’s another nice quote for you!
Marcel Proust, French novelist:
‘I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shiver ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses… when could it have come to me, this all-powerful joy? I sensed that it was connected with the taste of the tea and the cake, but that it infinitely transcended these savors’.
No problem Jo.
That’s certainly a good one, thanks! And it’s given me an idea. Perhaps I’ll have to do a post on the best cake quotes next!