Drinking Tea Quotes

• 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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• 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, Tea Drinking

  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, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

  1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

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

  Condoleezza Rice

  Drinking, Thinking, People

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

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Tea Drinking, Live In The Moment

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

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• what you don't know, you don't miss

  Cecelia Ahern

  Missing, Twists, Joy Luck Club

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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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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• Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

  J. B. Priestley

  Revenge, Rivers, Yellow

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• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Drinking, Food

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, p. 659, 1791.

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

  Zola Budd

  Home, Tea Drinking, Atmosphere

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• I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

  Jackie Chan

  Drinking, Fighting, Tea

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• I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

  John Bonham

  Drinking, Tired, Blow

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• Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Drinking, Hands, Tea

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

  James Lileks

  Drinking, Coffee, Hands

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• When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Dog, Drinking, Feet

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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 try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Drinking, Silly

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Real, Drinking, Writing

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• Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Powerful, Drinking

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• A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

  Miss Read

  Drinking, Past, Sight

  Miss Read (2002). “Gossip from Thrush Green”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living. And each part, each moment of living, is meaningful. You just have to be there; otherwise, who is going to experience the meaning? People go on drinking tea, but they never are there; their minds are wandering all over the world.

  Rajneesh

  Meaningful, Morning, Drinking

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• Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Drinking, Writing, Glasses

  "Amichai, Israel´s Most Important and Influential Poet, Dies at 76", www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2000.

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• The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?

  Ilona Andrews

  Drinking, Doctors, Tea

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.208, Penguin

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