Tea Quotes - Page 7

• If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Cups, Spirituality, Can Do

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• We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Stirring

  Christopher Isherwood (2008). “The Berlin Stories”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• Question your tea spoons.

  Georges Perec

  Spoons

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• When thoughts come, you can invite them in but don't serve them tea.

  Mel Weitsman

  Invites

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• I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mind, Aspect, Involved

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• I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

  Maggie Grace

  Wine, Littles, Nuance

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• When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of it is more than the worth of it.

  Hal Turner

  Easter, Dad, Coffee

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• First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Light, Rivers, Rushing

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• I'm really into rooibos tea with goat's milk and a little bit of honey. I also drink dandelion tea, Earl Grey, and sometimes a green tea. I'm very into tea.

  Miranda Kerr

  Milk, Dandelions, Goats

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• There's something so comforting to me about having a cup of tea, and it really needs to be made with love - I can taste the difference.

  Miranda Kerr

  Differences, Comforting, Cups

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

  Agatha Christie

  Everyday, Ordinary, Afternoon

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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• I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Life, Dream, Art

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• I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Hurt, Believe, Civilization

  E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Serenity, Big Sur

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

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• The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science, their labour bore fruit.

  George Mikes

  Together, Groups, Way

  "How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils". Book by George Mikes, 1946.

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

  George Gissing

  Drinking, Leisure, Enjoy

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

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• 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

  Heart, Water, Mountain

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• I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.

  Lu Tong

  Care, Taste, Immortal Life

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• Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.

  Charles Darwin

  Strong, Coffee, Monkeys

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.12

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• I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

  Rand Paul

  Leadership, Party, Technology

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• I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.

  William Gibson

  Trying, Zeitgeist, Invites

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Spiritual, Clarity, Tranquility

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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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• Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

  Helen Simonson

  Passion, Wells, Spills

  Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.347, A&C Black

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• I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

  Danny Dyer

  Age, Jasmine, Sophisticated

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