Thee Quotes

Onze 16 favorite thee quotes.

 

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. 

C.S. Lewis

 

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Wilkie Collins

 

 

 

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say what kind of tea?

― Neil Gaiman

 

 

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Bill Watterson

 

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

Sydney Smith

 

 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

 Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom

I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment

of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

DT Suzuki

 Tea is a religion of the art of life.

Okakura Kakuzō

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us

into a world of quiet contemplation of life

Lin Yutang

 

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

Frances Hardinge

 

“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”

Agatha Christie

 

 I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.

Lu T'ung

 In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself

Okakura Kakuzō

 

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement

Arthur Gray

Coffee is not my cup of tea

Samuel Goldwyn

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