Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. "Henry Fielding" "Love in
Several Masques"
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth
revolves- slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. " Thich Nat Hahn"
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen,
curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of ravine,
gleam like a lake touched by the zephyr, and be wet and soft like a tine earth
newly swept by rain. "Lu Yu"
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.
"Gladstone,1865"
Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. "Tien Yiheng"
There is a great deal of poetry and tine sentiment in a chest of tea. "Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Letters and Social Aims"
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. "Mick Jagger"
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"
"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."
"Lewis Carroll, Alice in WOnderland"
Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude
and the pleasures of company. "Author Unknown"
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in the nervous
sensibilities... will always be the favored beverage of the intellectual.
"thomas DeQuincy (1875-1959) Confession of an English Opium Eater"
Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.", Catherine Douzel"
