38 Inspiring Tea Quotes

Tea, a timeless elixir cherished by cultures around the globe, offers more than just a soothing beverage to start or end our day. It embodies moments of tranquility, camaraderie, and reflection. Whether you're a connoisseur of exotic blends or simply enjoy a comforting cup, tea has a unique way of inspiring us with its simplicity and depth. To celebrate this beloved drink, we've curated a collection of the top 38 inspiring tea quotes. These words capture the essence of tea and its profound impact on our lives, inviting you to brew a cup and savor each moment.

1. “Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.” - Douglas Adams

2. “Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly."I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more.""You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing.""Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.” - Lewis Carroll

3. “A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.” - Mary Lou Heiss

4. “Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.” - Flora Thompson

5. “There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.” - Lin Yutang

6. “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?” - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

7. “If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!” - Emilie Autumn

8. “In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting. In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.I liked the Irish way better.” - C.E. Murphy

9. “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.” - Kakuzo Okakura

10. “Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.” - Gerald Durrell

11. “I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.""Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.” - Cassandra Clare

12. “I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.” - Anne Lamott

13. “Two things consistently bring me pleasure: hot sweet tea and writing. Which is not to say that either are particularly good for me…I use entirely too much sugar and so far don’t find sucralose to be a good alternative. Also, writing is not a practice that engenders confidence. Quite the opposite. It’s about making yourself deliberately insecure so that you can write the next thing and have it be worth reading.And that’s not even taking into consideration the business end of things, which can make you bitter if you’re not careful…But I’ve spent my the bulk of my life to date figuring out the right mix of fat and sugar in my tea and also, how to get incrementally better (I hope…) at the writing, so I’m not giving it/them up!” - Ariel Gordon

14. “I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.” - Paul Colman

15. “If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It is called "Taking your Daughter out for tea" or "Going to Her Soccer Game", and it works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives.” - Jim Anderson

16. “Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with imaginary weapons, and so forth. But in Miss Penelope Lumley's day, it was universally understood that there is nothing like a nice cup of tea to settle one's nerves in the aftermath of an adventure- a practice many would find well worth reviving.” - Maryrose Wood

17. “Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.” - Kathleen Thompson Norris

18. “Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.” - Alice Walker

19. “Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.” - Lu Yu

20. “Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.” - Isabella Beeton

21. “The order never varies. Two slices of bread-and-butter each, and China tea. What a hide-bound couple we must seem, clinging to custom because we did so in England. Here, on this clean balcony, white and impersonal with centuries of sun, I think of half-past-four at Manderley, and the table drawn before the library fire. The door flung open, punctual to the minute, and the performance, never-varying, of the laying of the tea, the silver tray, the kettle, the snowy cloth.” - Daphne du Maurier

22. “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."(Essay on Tea, 1757.)” - Samuel Johnson

23. “You can serve high tea around the dining room table, but afternoon tea is more of a living room occasion, with everything brought in on a tray or a cart.” - Angela Hynes

24. “Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.” - George Orwell

25. “While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea” - E.M. Forster

26. “Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.” - Kay Goodstadt

27. “You weren't to know how your touch with the teaspoon stirred me…” - Tiffany Atkinson

28. “Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.” - Rachel Hawkins

29. “Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.” - Kakuzo Okakura

30. “I was learning, even in my brief time in England, that a cup of tea almost always helped. I didn't know whether it was the caffeine, the warmth, or the simple fact of having someone else do something kind, but a soothing cup of tea in Harriet Dalrymple's cottage was fast becoming my lifeline to sanity.” - Beth Pattillo

31. “She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she thought you took too much strong tea. In fact she wants me to advise you if possible to give up the tea and the very late hours.” - Bram Stoker

32. “I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.” - Anne Brontë

33. “Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible.” - L.L. Barkat

34. “Tea no more! Down with bustles!” - Nancy Moser

35. “I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.” - Katja Millay

36. “But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.” - Kakuzo Okakura

37. “Vol picks up the cup of tea in both hands and takes a long sip. Mm, grass-clippings. Her favourite.” - Nenia Campbell

38. “The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.” - Khaled Hosseini