"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

"'From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"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

"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground)

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?
"
— Joss Whedon (The Gift: Cinemanga)

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?"
— Douglas Adams

"'I don't want tea,' said Clary, with muffled force. 'I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.'

'Unfortunately,' said Hodge, 'we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.'"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"This tastes almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
— Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story)

"Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea."
— T.S. Eliot

"A cup of tea would restore my normality."
— Douglas Adams

"'Does it hurt?"' The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it.

'Dying? Not at all,' said Sirius. 'Quicker and easier than falling asleep.'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"Sam: It must be getting near tea-time, leastways in decent places where there *is* still tea-time.
Gollum: We're not *in* decent places. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
— Henry James

"It is better to be deprived of food for three days, than of tea for one. "
— Chinese Proverb

"Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)