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  • #1
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #2
    Bei Dao
    “In the world I am
    Always a stranger
    I do not understand its language
    It does not understand my silence”
    Bei Dao

  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #4
    “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, Urban Shaman

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #6
    Henry James
    “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
    Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
    tags: tea

  • #7
    William Ewart Gladstone
    “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.”
    William Ewart Gladstone
    tags: tea

  • #8
    Sydney  Smith
    “Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
    Sydney Smith, A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set

  • #9
    Gary Snyder
    “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

  • #10
    D.T. Suzuki
    “Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
    Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture

  • #12
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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

  • #13
    Kakuzō Okakura
    “Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.”
    Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
    tags: tea

  • #14
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    “Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

  • #15
    Frances Hardinge
    “Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.”
    Frances Hardinge

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

  • #17
    Charles Dickens
    “My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.”
    Charles Dickens, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
    tags: tea

  • #18
    “I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.”
    Lu T'ung

  • #19
    “A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.”
    Mary Lou Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
    tags: tea

  • #20
    “There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”
    Alan Clark

  • #21
    Cassandra Clare
    “Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: tea

  • #22
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: tea

  • #23
    Bill Drummond
    “For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.”
    Bill Drummond, $20,000: A Book

  • #24
    Samuel Johnson
    “a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.”
    Samuel Johnson

  • #25
    Kakuzō Okakura
    “In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.”
    Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea

  • #26
    Roddy Doyle
    “She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.”
    Roddy Doyle
    tags: tea

  • #27
    Chelsea Handler
    “Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
    Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

  • #28
    James Joyce
    “All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
    James Joyce

  • #29
    Edvard Munch
    “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
    Edvard Munch



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