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15 December is International Tea Day and I’ve put together this selection of quotes about tea to celebrate.

The Top 12 Literary Quotes About Tea

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 One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed. ~Morrissey Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. ~Bill Watterson Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Tea is one of the main stays of civilisation in this country. ~George Orwell Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea! ~Agatha Christie Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual. ~Thomas De Quincey The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness. ~P.G. Wodehouse Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ~Henry James Where there’s tea there’s hope. ~Arthur Wing Pinero Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea? ~Noël Coward You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis

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by Amanda Patterson

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