468 Quotes About Tea

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

You can kill me when I no longer enjoy a cup of tea

It is not a cold day, but she looks warmed by the tea. Tea has that effect on people. I love watching it bring comfort.

Should trouble come, in the dark of night, be it fire or war or black plague, save my children, then my wife, then my tea chest and kettle. With these I can live, quite contentedly. I need nothing else on my estates.

Thank the heavens for tea. How did people ever come together without it?

As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.

Astonishing how tea opens the ears.

In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring her tea, which she steeps with the kind of Zen patience that would make Buddhists sit up in envy and then breathe through their envy and then move past their envy.

It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.