100 Tea Quotes & Sayings To Fall In Love with Tea

Hello fellow tea lover, I’m here to get you inspired by reading these cute, funny and meaningful tea quotes you can use to boost your mood.

You can share them with friends on social media, write them in your journal, and enjoy reading them while drinking a nice cuppa tea.

I created the name of this website (Put The Kettle On) because of my love of tea and because tea is the thing I turn to when I need support or a warm hug from the inside. It’s my quick go-to for self-care and a routine I love in so many ways.

Having a cup of tea has many positive memories for me from long chats with friends to sitting next to my grandmother on the sofa.

With this love of tea comes a love of all things tea and that includes cute, inspiring tea quotes.

Now, put the kettle on and brew a cup of your favourite tea. Let’s begin!

100 Best Tea Quotes & Sayings for Tea Lovers

To easily find what you’re looking for, below I’m sharing a variety of different tea quotes and sayings.

You’ll find:

• Famous tea quotes
• Morning tea quotes
• Inspiring tea quotes
• Quotes for serious tea drinkers
• Funny tea quotes and sayings
• Cute Tea Sayings & Captions for Instagram

Famous Tea Quotes

To start I must share my absolute favourite tea quote of all time from Bernard-Paul Heroux

It really is true. No matter what, a good cup of tea can make you feel just a little better.

1. “There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.”

2. “You are my cup of tea” – Unknown

3. “A cup of tea makes everything better.” – Unknown

4. “Keep calm and put the kettle on.” – Unknown

5. “Tea is liquid wisdom” – Unknown

6. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis.

7. “Tea is the elixir of life.” – Lao Tzu

8. “Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?” – J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

9. “The first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.” – Jack Kerouac

10. “Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.”  Ancient Chinese proverb

11. “You’ll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

– Winston Churchill

12. “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” – Bill Watterson

13. “Yes, that’s it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it’s always tea time.” ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, Lewis Carroll

14. “My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.” ‘Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy’, Charles Dickens

15. “But indeed, I would rather have nothing but tea.” ‘Mansfield Park’, Jane Austen

16. “Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.” – Chaim Potok

17. “A woman is like a teabag. You’ll never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

18. “Come, sit down and have some tea. Bread and butter, cream and sugar. Now tell me of your troubles.” – A.A. Milne

Morning Tea Quotes

19. “A morning without tea is like a night without stars.” – Unknown

20. “This morning’s tea makes yesterday distant.” – Unknown

21. “There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.” – Phillis Logan

22. “The first sip of green tea in the morning is like taking a sip of peace.” – Chinese proverb

23. “Morning tea is like a sunrise for the soul. – Unknown

24. “The morning cup of tea has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

25. “I like my tea dark and my mornings bright.” – Unknown

26. “There’s something hypnotic about every morning tea.” – Dorothy L. Sayers 

27. “Morning tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought, and prevents drowsiness.”

– Lu Yu

Inspiring Tea Quotes

28. “A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.” – Chinese Proverb

29. “Where there’s tea, there’s hope.” – Arthur Wing Pinero

30. “Life is like a cup of tea. It’s all in how you make it.” – Unknown

31. “When I drink tea I am conscious of peace. The cool breath of heaven rushes in my sleeves. And blows my cares away.” – Chinese poet,  Lo Tung

32. “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

33. “The aroma of tea carries stories untold.” – Unknown

34. “There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.” – Lin Yutang

35. “Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea?” – Noel Coward

36. “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” – Henry James

37. “Tea – Its elixir is like the sweetest dew of heaven.” – Lu Yu

38. “Tea is not just a beverage; it’s a ritual. Life, too, becomes more meaningful when you find joy in the everyday rituals that make it uniquely yours.”

– Unknown

39. “You have to be a good person to make good tea.” ~ Old Daddy, 13th Generation Oolong Tea Master

40. “Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.” – Jonathan Stroud

41. “Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.” – Letitia Baldrige

42. “Tea is to the body as music is to the soul.” – Earlene Grey

43. “Today I’d like to sit and sip, forget the world a little bit, ignore the things I have to do and just enjoy a cup or two.” – Unknown

44. “Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.” – George Gissing

45. “In my own hands I hold a bowl of tea; I see all of nature represented in its green color. Closing my eyes, I find green mountains and pure water within my own heart. Silently sitting alone and drinking tea, I feel these become a part of me.” – Sen Soshitsu

Quotes for Serious Tea Drinkers

46. “If asked, “How do you take your tea?” I reply “seriously, very seriously.”

47. “I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than twenty weak ones. All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.” – George Orwell

48. “In Chinese, we say tea washes the spirit. It’s not something that just enters your stomach, it also enters your mind.”- Patrick Cui, Tea Master

49. “Tea is the ultimate mental and medical remedy and has the ability to make one’s life more full and complete” – Myoan Eisai

50. “No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served.” – Earlene Grey

51. “Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

52. “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 Nhat Hanh

53. “Tea … is a religion of the art of life.” – Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

54. “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

55 .“I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work. Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.” – Leo Tolstoy

56. “There’s something hypnotic about the word tea.” – Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

57. “Tea is the finest solution to nearly every catastrophe and conundrum that the day may bring.” – Sapphire Venet

58. “A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.” – Mary Lou Heiss

59. “Life is too short for bad tea.”

– Said every serious tea lover

60. “Give me tea or give me tea. There’s no other option.: – Unknown

61. “If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.” – Japanese Proverb

62. “I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.” – S. T. Joshi

Funny Tea Quotes and Sayings

63. “Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of tea” – Unknown

64. “Without tea there is only darkness & chaos” – Unknown

65. “When in doubt drink tea” – Unknown

66. “I like big cups and I can not lie.” – Unknown

67. “Make tea, not war.” – Unknown

68. “Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.” – Frances Hardinge

69. “My plan today is to drink copious amounts of tea.”

70. “I like tea and yoga., but I don’t do yoga.” – Moby

71. “You can’t be everyone’s cup of tea otherwise you’d be a mug.”- Unknown

72. “I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.”

– Mick Jagger

73. “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. I’m not a goddamned faith healer!” – C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman

74. “Tea is a gateway drug to biscuits.” – Unknown

75. “I’m not addicted to tea. We are just in a very serious relationship.” – Unknown

Cute Tea Sayings & Captions for Instagram

76. You are beau-tea-ful.

77. sereni-tea: The absence of stress while drinking tea

78. Let’s cuddle and drink tea all day.

79. Tea is my therapy.

80. A cup of tea is like having a bath on the inside.

81. Tea is like a warm hug from the inside.

82. Have A Cup Of Positivi-Tea

83. Stressed, blessed and tea obsessed

84. But first, tea.

85. Everything is better with tea.

86. There’s always time for tea.

87. You’re tea-riffic.

88. Home is where the tea is.

89. Keep calm and drink tea.

90. Today is a multiple cups of tea kinda day.

91. “A cup of tea solves everything.” 

92. “Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.” –  Alice Walker, The Color Purple

93. “Tea is an answer to most of the problems.” – Author unknown

94. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy tea and that’s kind of the same thing.”

– UNKNOWN

95. “Everything has a beginning. I believe I will begin with tea.” – Jennifer R. Cook

96. “Raindrops and tea cups, the soundtrack of a peaceful day.”

97. It’s a nice day for some Earl Grey.

98. May your Tea be strong and your Monday be short.

99. Today’s good mood is sponsored by tea.

100. When life gives you lemons, put them in your tea.

I’d Love to Know…

What Are your favourite tea quotes?

Share in the comments below and definitely post any great ones I might be missing.

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