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TEA QUOTES

Variety of Tea Quotes

Use these famous tea quotes as social media posts, your blog, your website, your emails or newsletters or combine with photos for Instagram and Pinterest.

  • A woman is like a tea bag – you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings. Letitia Baldridge
  • I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty. Narendra Modi
  • Tea makes everything better.    Bindi Irwin
  • Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping "tea" is cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.       Grace Gealey
  • I like the pause that tea shows. Waris Abluwalia
  • No matter what is happening in your life, you always offer tea. Clemantine Wamariya
  • India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish – and sometimes rats.         Amitava Kumar
  • There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning. Phyllis Logan
  • Tea Land is a happy place! Jennifer Petersen
  • I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me. Mel B.
  • Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things. Chaim Potok
  • I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen. Hugh Grant
  • Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky – this is happiness.  Truly happiness. Lee Hyeon-seo
  • As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy, too.  Tea is very healing. Kristin Chenoweth
  • I don't drink coffee, but I'm a tea addict. Toks Olagundoye
  • I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea. S. T. Joshi
  • Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one out to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment. John Muir
  • There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Henry James
  • 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 doth both, they drink tea. Gary Snyder
  • You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis
  • A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year. Penny Jordan
  • If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea. Sophie McShera
  • I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.                     Deirdre O'Kane
  • If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. Abraham Lincoln
  • After tea, it's back to painting. Gustav Klimt
  • The less you worry about the effect of tea and coffee on the lining of your stomach, the longer you will live, and the happier you will be.   Zack Wheat
  • I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. Bindi Irwin
  • After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea.  Robert Fisk
  • To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau
  • I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably mean you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary; where you're not comfortable. Kacey Musgraves
  • I use a lot of natural products, I get facials, and I drink a lot of detox tea. Jerry Hall
  • I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs to the café to get tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.  Jessica Chastain
  • Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. Yoshio Taniguchi
  • That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life – that is what is abnormal. Elie Wiesel
  • Green tea through the day is the healthiest thing I've discovered for me. Jessica Chastain
  • Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Henry Fielding
  • Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cozy… doesn't try it on. Billy Connolly
  • Oh, I love tea. I have to take  tea bags wherever I go.  Daphne Guinness
  • I'm a green tea addict, thought the occasional glass of red wine is nice, too. Shilpa Shetty
  • I'm a chai tea latte monster. Anything syrupy! Suki Waterhouse
  • Tea has always been a big thing in my life. And I'm not talking about Liptons with lemon or iced tea, or any of that nonsense. Has to be hot PG Tips with milk. Paul Rudd
  • I would rather have a cup of tea than sex. Boy George
  • 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
  • Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. Josh Billings
  • I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. Moby
  • When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. Audrey Hepburn
  • Under certain circumstances, there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Henry James
  • I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. Mick Jagger
  • Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.  Alice Walker
  • Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.  Edmund Waller
  • The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business…and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea. Howard Schultz
  • England was full of words I'd never heard before – streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet. Bill Bryson
  • I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy. Chelsea Clinton
  • Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. Hilaire Belloc
  • Brewing a good cuppa is something not everyone can do, and I loathe bad tea. Rod Stewart
  • I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. Mary J. Blige
  • Tea, although ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. Thomas de Quincey
  • I'm not sure how I'd survive without English breakfast tea. Even in the Caribbean, I must drink 20 cups a day. Richard Branson
  • We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one. Billy Corgan
  • My mum has a cupboard in her house, and you have to fight an avalanche of tea whenever you open it. I go through eight teas a day because I like having something in my hands when I'm working, and it stops me going for the cookie jar. Samara Weaving
  • We sell tea in Starbucks, but I think the experience is very different. I think coffee is something that is quick – it's transactional. I think tea is more Zen-like. It requires a different environment. Howard Schultz
  • You'd be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant. Letitia Baldridge
  • I tried putting teabags under my eyes because they say that the green tea – the caffeine – will help with under-eye bags and moisture. It worked! That’s a new tip. Olivia Culpo
  • Normally, I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot. Phyllis Logan
  • Where there's tea, there's hope. Arthur Wing Pinero
  • American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957. Tom Holt
  • I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. Arnold Palmer
  • I'll drink iced tea or water for what I drink throughout my day. I just made that like a lifestyle change. Khloe Kardashian
  • My favourite dinner is a cup of tea and a ham sandwich with English mustard. Marco Pierre White
  • I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face. Bear Grylls
  • I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go. Helen Mirren
  • I would serve a selection of cakes, scones, and small sandwiches for afternoon tea. High tea is usually served between 5 P.M. and 6 P.M., replacing an evening meal – it is more substantial. Mary Berry
  • At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes anyway. Letitia Baldridge
  • I'm an afternoon tea maven. I can tell you who has the best tea in every country.  Rita Moreno
  • I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of china, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's unbelievable expensive, but I get it on the web. Antonio Banderas
  • If someone said, "Think of a happy place for you", I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea. Donal Logue
  • If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them. Matt Smith

Example of a tea quote for Facebook:

(C) Jennifer C. Petersen 2019

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