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

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

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

"In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.

In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.

I liked the Irish way better."
— C.E. Murphy

""After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with.
He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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

"I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea."
— Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)

"and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage"
— Virginia Woolf (The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 1)

"I have very bad posture."
— Kurt Cobain

"Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man."
— Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz

""Feel good, be good, and do good."
"
— Yogi Bhajan

"Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Letters and Social Aims)

"The Tea Party

I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
'Twas very small-
Three guest in all-
Just I, myself and me.

Myself ate all the sandwiches,
While I drank up the tea;
'Twas also I who ate the pie
And passed the cake to me. Jessica Nelson North"
— jessica Nelson North

"Coffee isn't my cup of tea"
— Samuel Goldwyn

"To read is to empower
To empower is to write
To write is to influence
To Influence is to change
To change is to live.
"
— Jane Evershed

""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 do both, they drink tea.""
— Gary Snyder

"Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl."
— Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals)

"And is there honey still for tea?"
— Rupert Brooke

"One drinks tea to forget the world's noise; it is not for those who eat rich food and dress in silk pyjamas."
— T'ien Yiheng

"There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life."
— Yutang Lin (The Importance Of Living)

"When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment? "
— Muriel Barbery (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)

"And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea."
— Jonah Winter (Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude)

""I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.""
— Paul Colman