97 Inspirational And Cozy Tea Quotes

There’s something undeniably comforting about a warm cup of tea, whether it’s enjoyed in solitude or shared with friends. Tea has long been a source of inspiration and solace, threading its way through cultural tapestries worldwide. In moments of reflection or during shared conversations, the gentle embrace of tea often adds a layer of warmth and understanding. Dive into this curated collection of 97 inspirational and cozy tea quotes, crafted to delight your senses and ignite your spirit. Let each quote serve as a gentle reminder of the simple pleasures that life has to offer, wrapped up in the tender embrace of your favorite brew.

1. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” - C.S. Lewis

2. “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

3. “Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.” - Ann Patchett

4. “Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.” - Thomas De Quincey

5. “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

6. “A cup of tea would restore my normality."[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]” - Douglas Adams

7. “I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.” - Dodie Smith

8. “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

9. “Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.” - Kakuzo Okakura

10. “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

11. “We had a kettle; we let it leak:Our not repairing made it worse.We haven't had any tea for a week...The bottom is out of the Universe.” - Rudyard Kipling

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

13. “...Tea. There is nothing saner than tea, he thought. ... Tea was the great leveler. It brought calm, quiet, contentment, warmth. And it was something to do. .....Tea-- so normal, so mundane, so hot......The heat and scent of it permeated his head and cleared his mind. He understood completely the attraction of ceremonies grounded in the ritual of drinking tea. It required both caution and abandonment of the senses. It demanded that you move into it slowly and savor the moment. And it rewarded you with warmth and delicacy of taste and refreshment. And after you were done, it could parse out your future.” - Thea Devine

14. “When I am at my work each dayIn the fields so fresh and greenI often think of riches and the way things might have beenBut believe me when I tell you when I get home each dayI'm as happy as a sandboy with my wee cup of tay” - Patrick McCabe

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

16. “Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.” - Jasper Fforde

17. “Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?” - Samuel Johnson

18. “Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged swordKit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)” - Lemony Snicket

19. “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

20. “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.” - Wilkie Collins

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

22. “A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.” - Charles Dickens

23. “And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.” - Jonah Winter

24. “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

25. “For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.” - Bill Drummond

26. “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

27. “Stands the Church clock at ten to three?And is there honey still for tea?” - Rupert Brooke

28. “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

29. “The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.” - William Faulkner

30. “Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.” - Christine Feehan

31. “In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.” - H.E. Davey

32. “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

33. “As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.” - Aprilynne Pike

34. “Putting a damp spoon back in the bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle. And I did not want to end up with the tea-drinking equivalent of AIDS.” - Alan Partridge

35. “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

36. “Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urnThrows up a steamy column and the cupsThat cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in.” - William Cowper

37. “I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting."This is from Grand Auntie," my mother explains. "She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound.""You're kidding." I take another sip. It tastes even better.” - Amy Tan

38. “Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;Custards for supper, and an endless hostOf syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,And other such ladylike luxuries.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

39. “Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,sage and venerable liquid ...to whose glorious insipidity,I owe the happiest moments of my life,let me fall prostrate.” - Colley Cibber

40. “Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?” - Noel Coward

41. “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

42. “Find yourself a cup of tea,the teapot is behind you.Now tell me abouthundreds of things.” - Saki

43. “Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."” - Arthur Gray

44. “There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe -- the only lady private detective in Botwana -- brewed tea. And three mugs -- one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need?” - Alexander McCall Smith

45. “I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.” - Sydney Smith

46. “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

47. “The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.” - Charles Dickens

48. “The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea; she dressed as if for dinner. The tea-table offered an anomalous and picturesque repast; and on leaving it they all sat and talked in the large piazza, or wandered about the garden in the starlight.” - Henry James

49. “She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.” - Marcel Proust

50. “His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies.” - James Hilton

51. “Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.” - A.A. Milne

52. “And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.” - Martha Grimes

53. “In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

54. “The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.” - Lu Yu

55. “The usual for me." The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

56. “Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.” - Beatrix Potter

57. “With melted snow I boil fragrant tea.” - Mencius

58. “The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.” - Lafcadio Hearn

59. “Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.” - Helen Simpson

60. “A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a mood that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind.” - John Blofeld

61. “Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.” - Daphne du Maurier

62. “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

63. “I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.” - L.M. Montgomery

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

65. “I like pouring your tea, liftingthe heavy pot, and tipping it up,so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup.Or when you’re away, or at work,I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip,as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips.I like the questions – sugar? – milk? –and the answers I don’t know by heart, yet,for I see your soul in your eyes, and I forget.Jasmine, Gunpowder, Assam, Earl Grey, Ceylon,I love tea’s names. Which tea would you like? I saybut it’s any tea for you, please, any time of day,as the women harvest the slopesfor the sweetest leaves, on Mount Wu-Yi,and I am your lover, smitten, straining your tea.- Tea” - Carol Ann Duffy

66. “I read the tea leaves as if they were wordsleft over from a conversation between two cups.” - Kenny Knight

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

68. “I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one side ..."(Englishman in New York)” - Sting

69. “Have some more tea, dear," Hester said, reaching for the pot and refilling my cup. "I always find that helps.” - Beth Pattillo

70. “I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.” - Lu T'ung

71. “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

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

73. “I don't want tea, I want justice!” - Ally Carter

74. “I looked at Judith. "This sounds strange, but I don't suppose you saw three mad women with a cauldron of boiling tea pass by this way?""No," she replied. The polite voice of reasonable people scared of exciting the madman."Flash of light? Puff of smoke? Erm..." I tried to find a polite way of describing the symptoms of spontaneous teleportation without using the dreaded "teleportation" word. I failed. I slumped back into the sand. What kind of mystic kept a spatial vortex at the bottom of their cauldrons of tea anyway?” - Kate Griffin

75. “You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required." "I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.” - Cassandra Clare

76. “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

77. “She raised her hand to cut me off. "I am aware of your epistolary flirtation. Which is all well and good--as long as it's well and good. Before I ask you some questions, perhaps you would like some tea?""That would depend on what kind of tea you were offering.""So diffident! Suppose it was Earl Grey."I shook my head. "Tastes like pencil shavings.""Lady Grey.""I don't drink beverages named after beheaded monarchs. It seems so tacky.""Chamomile?""Might as well sip butterfly wings.""Green tea?""You can't be serious."The old woman nodded her approval. "I wasn't.""Because you know when a cow chews grass? And he or she chews and chews and chews? Well, green tea tastes like French-kissing that cow after it's done chewing all that grass.""Would you like some mint tea?""Only under duress.""English breakfast."I clapped my hands. "Now you're talking!” - David Levithan

78. “This will not do,' he said to himself. 'If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must stop! I promised the doctor I would not take tea. Faith, he was pretty right! My nerves must have been getting in a queer state. Funny I did not notice it. I never felt better in my life. However it is all right now, and I shall not be such a fool again.' Then he mixed himself a good stiff glass of brandy and water and resolutely sat down to his work.” - Bram Stoker

79. “Tea is the elixir of life.” - Eisai

80. “One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.“Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the British empire,” Laura returned.“Writing for me,” Megan had typed.“I’ll write you a tea fortune.”“No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good.” - L.L. Barkat

81. “Have tea, might write,” Laura returned.” - L.L. Barkat

82. “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

83. “Her tea basket was still lost, but that didn’t seem to matter now. People used to eat loose tea on long journeys. They’d pack it into hard little cakes they’d pull out later, to gnaw on while they warmed their hands by a fire. The tea provided physical sustenance, but it was also considered good for the soul.” - L.L. Barkat

84. “Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.” - Louise Penny

85. “We are having hot lesbian sex... and by sex we mean tea but it's still hot.” - ananymous

86. “The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.” - Douglas Adams

87. “ "At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.” - Robert Godden

88. “In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem.Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea.Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit.Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.” - David Walliams

89. “Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while she talks."Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not knowWhat 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 remorseAnd smiles at situations which it cannot see."I smile, of course,And go on drinking tea.” - T.S. Eliot

90. “As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmares, to wit, a cup of hot tea.** The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact.” - Terry Pratchett

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

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

93. “Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!” - Agatha Christie

94. “That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.” - Sophie Divry

95. “She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

96. “Her face was like a pot of tea about to whistle.” - Carolyn Turgeon

97. “Do ghosts drink tea?They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely.” - Roddy Doyle