Tea Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old tea quotes, tea sayings, and tea proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. Okakura Kakuzō
The beverage grew to be an excuse for the worship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion for the utmost beatitude of the mundane. Okakura Kakuzō
All the tea in China would be nearly 600,000 tons, according to the 1985 estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture. Robert Hendrickson
There is only one tea plant and it is Camellia Sinensis. We grow Camellia Sinensis and it is the processing of the leaves of the plant that make white, green. oolong, or black tea. Katrina Avila Munichiello
Tea is an art and can be elegant or simple and spiritual. Katrina Avila Munichiello
The act of sharing tea is one of awareness and consciousness. Katrina Avila Munichiello
We think it is important to honor the whole ceremonial side of drinking tea: brewing in artful ways and drinking from ceramic vessels. Katrina Avila Munichiello
Tea is unlike any other beverages. It connects invisibly through time and space, to the past and to others who find solace in tea. Katrina Avila Munichiello
Tea can remove worry as well as thirst. Tibetan Saying
I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals only with the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning. Samuel Johnson
My experience... convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Africa I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead. Theodore Roosevelt
If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is a meditation; it is a prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert. Osho
Tea is a divine herb. There are ample profits to be had in its cultivation. It purifies the spirit of the one drinking it; and it is esteemed by the nobles and public alike. Truly tea is a necessity in the daily life of man and an asset to the commonwealth. Xu Guang Qi
Mountain flowers are bringing out their beauty while tea sprouts their fragrance. Chen Chong Ping
Mountain flowers are bringing out their beauty while tea sprouts their fragrance. Chen Chong Ping
A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. Chinese Proverb
Tea speaks to the individual, as it should, because it is wise; and its language isn't Eastern or Western, but natural or primordial. Aaron Fisher
Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one. Chinese Proverb
Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot water crossed paths. John Egerton
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. Alice Walker
Tea has always meant different things to different people, though looking at the long scroll of tea history, one must recognize that its ultimate expression is as meditation— a step towards the deep and silent space just beyond the threshold of our hearts when they're opened. Aaron Fisher
Life... a formless lump like cold tea leaves from which goodness and badness and even the last tang of bitterness have been stewed out. Gerald Kersh
If it's not your cup of tea— don't drink it. Christine O'Brien
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. Okakura Kakuzō
There is a subtle charm in the taste of tea which makes it irresistible and capable of idealization. Western humorists were not slow to mingle the fragrance of their thought with its aroma. It has not the arrogance of wine, the self-consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa. Okakura Kakuzō
A cup of tea would restore my normality. Douglas Adams
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
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
Doing nothing is respectable at tea. Sasaki Sanmi
The sounds of the tea being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window. Sasaki Sanmi