51+ Best Quotes About Tea And Coffee To Soothe Your Soul

Srija Chanda
Dec 12, 2023 By Srija Chanda
Originally Published on Mar 23, 2021
Edited by Monisha Kochhar
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Tea and coffee are some of the most consumed beverages in the whole world.

Tea was invented much before coffee in 2737 BC in China. Whereas coffee was first produced near the Red Sea in Arabia in 674 A.D.

Both tea and coffee contain caffeine which helps to energize the body. There are different variants of tea and coffee all over the world. Some of the most common types of tea that are consumed are black tea, green tea, and herbal tea. Some of the most common kinds of coffee that people have are black coffee, americano, espresso, and cappuccino. Both the drinks help in controlling diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and much more.

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Quotes About Drinking Tea

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Famous quotes about tea that all tea lovers will absolutely cherish and adore.

1. "There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life."

-Lin Yutang.

2. "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

-C.S. Lewis.

3. "I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

4. “Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson.

5. “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”

-Bill Watterson.

6. "Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea."  

-Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

7. "Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.”

- Lu Yu.

8. "No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served."

-Earlene Grey.

9. “Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”  

-Agatha Christie.

10. "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.

11. "Tea is an act complete in its simplicity. When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea. The rest of the world dissolves. There are no worries about the future. No dwelling on past mistakes. Tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup."

-Thich Nhat Hanh.

12. "As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There’s a tea for that too."

-Aprilynne Pike.

Quotes About Drinking Coffee

If you enjoy your daily dose of caffeine, these coffee quotes are definitely going to make your day.

13. "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."

-Gary Snyder.

14. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

-T.S. Eliot.

15. "As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?"

-Cassandra Clare.

16. "I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."

-Steven Wright.

17. "What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup."

-Henry Rollins.

18. "The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drinks."

-Sir James Mackintosh.

19. "It is inhumane in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity."

-Dave Barry.

20. "The Communist slogan 'Workers, arise!' has come to mean in capitalist countries that it's time for the coffee break."

-Evan Esar.

21. "Coffee is a language in itself."

-Jackie Chan.

22. "Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?"

-Steven Wright.

23. "Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul."

–Isak Dinesen.

24. "Sunday morning, I wake up at, like, 6 or 6:30 to go to the gym. I drink a glass of water, and then, before I start my workout, I drink a cup of coffee."

-Salt Bae.

25. "In the new artisan coffee movement, Jeremy Challender, a 32-year-old Australian who is one of the founders of Prufrock Coffee, explains precision is everything for the barista."

-Justin Cartwright.

Quotes On Drinking Tea And Coffee

Here's a list of coffee and tea quotes that you will relate to on a personal level.

26. "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.

27. "I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now."

-Louisa May Alcott.

29. "Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings."

-Letitia Baldrige.

30. "It's better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one."

-Chinese proverb.

31."When I'm depressed and the weather is bad I look up my page on IMDb and I have my coffee and feel better. There are even films on there I don't know about!"

-Udo Kier.

32. “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

-Douglas Adams.

33. "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard."

- Anne Spencer.

34.  "When you are drinking tea, it is basically a private conversation between the tea and your individual soul."  

-Lu Ann Pannunzio.

35. “Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.”

-Catherine Douzel.

36. "A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked."

-Anais Nin.

37. "Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks."

-Holly Black.

38. "We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup."

-Jerry Seinfeld.

Important Coffee And Tea Quotes

These shortlisted coffee and tea quotes are what you were looking for today. So go on and give them a read.

39.  "At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea."

-Gary Snyder.

40. "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.

41. "I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up."

-David Bowie.

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

-Henry James.

44. "Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept."

-Francis Hardinge.

45. "No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for ‘Before Coffee.’ "

-Cherise Sinclair.

46. “Where there’s tea, there is Hope.”

-Wing Pinero.

47. "I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless."

–Napoleon Bonaparte.

48. "Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

-Edward Abbey.

49. "I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen."

-Gary Larson.

50.  "I love my Saturday coffee the way I used to love Saturday morning cartoons."

-Nanea Hoffman.

51.  "At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional."

-Robert Godden.

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

— Bernard-Paul Heroux.

53. "Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time."

- Lewis Carroll, 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'.

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Written by Srija Chanda

Master of Arts specializing in Mass Communication/Media Studies

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Srija ChandaMaster of Arts specializing in Mass Communication/Media Studies

An aspiring media professional, Srija is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Mass Communication at St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, after completing her degree in journalism. With experience in PR and social media, she has also honed her leadership skills through her participation in a youth parliament. Srija's interests include devouring books, watching movies, and exploring new places through travel.

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