Chai isn’t just a beverage, it’s the national crush, national obsession and everything in between. No matter the mood, occasion, season, or time of the day, a cup of tea can do no harm.
Bored out of your mind? Have tea! Catching up with an old friend? Let’s do it over a cuppa! Caught cold? A piping cup will do the trick! Chai is the answer to half of our problems, and we want to forget about the remaining half with a cup of hot tea in our hands.
This refreshing beverage can be anything you want it to be – a friend, companion, therapist.
So, prepare a cup and dive into these amazing chai quotes that are almost as revitalizing as the drink itself.
Chai Quotes for Every Tea Lover
1. “Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.” Ancient Chinese proverb
2. “No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served.” – Earlene Grey
3. “Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea?” – Noel Coward
4. “If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.” – Japanese proverb
5. “Home is where the tea is.” – Js Devivre, The Tea Traveller’s Constant Companion: Oregon
6. “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.” – Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
7. “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
8. “Tea is the elixir of life.” – Eisai, Kissa Yojoki
9. “Tea is always a good idea.” – Author unknown
10. “The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.” – Arthur Gray
11. “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” – Henry James
12. “Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.” – George Orwell, Smothered Under Journalism: 1946
13. “Tea tempers the spirit, harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens the thought and prevents drowsiness.” – Lu Yu, The Classic Art of Tea
14. “Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!” – Agatha Christie
15. “Tea is a part of daily life. It is as simple as eating when hungry and drinking when thirsty.” – Yamamoto Soshun
16. “Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane” – Honore de Balzac
17. “Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?” – Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson
18. “Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.” – Frances Hardinge
19. “The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.” – Lu Yu, Classic of Tea: Origins and Rituals
20. “Life is like a cup of tea. It’s all in how you make it.” – Unknown
21. “A cup of tea would restore my normality.” – Douglas Adams
22. “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
23. “Tea is an answer to most of the problems.” – Author unknown
24. “I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.” – Lu T’ung
25. “Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.” – Alexander Pushkin
26. “Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.” – Alice Walker, The Color Purple
27. “There’s always time for tea.” – Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night
28. “I got nasty habits – I take tea at three.” – Mick Jagger
29. “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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30. “A cup of tea is an excuse to share great thoughts with great minds.” – Cristina Re
31. “A cup of tea makes everything better.” – Author unknown
32. “Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.” – Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow
33. “Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.” – Isabella Beeton, Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management
34. “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
35. “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” – Bill Watterson
36. “This morning’s tea makes yesterday distant.” – Author unknown
37. “There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.” – Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
38. “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
39. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy tea and that’s kind of the same thing.” – Author unknown
40. “There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be diminished by a nice cup of tea.” – Bernard-Paul Heroux
41. “When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea.” ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
42. “Enjoy life sip by sip, not gulp by gulp.” – The Minister of Leaves
43. “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves” – Thich Nhat Hanh
44. “Yes, that’s it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it’s always tea time.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
45. “Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. “I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work. Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.” – Leo Tolstoy
47. “Tea … is a religion of the art of life.” – Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea
48. “Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.” – Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret
49. “There’s something hypnotic about the word tea.” – Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
50. “The tea session is modeled after the silence of retreat; a time to enjoy life far removed from daily existence.” – Sen Joo
51. “While there is tea, there is hope.” – Arthur Wing Pinero, Sweet Lavender – A Comedy in Three Acts
52. “When I drink tea I am conscious of peace. The cool breath of heaven rises in my sleeves, and blows my cares away.” – Lo Tung
53. “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
54. “Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.” – Kakuzo Okahura, The Book of Tea
55. “Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.” – James Norwood Pratt
56. “Tea does our fancy aid,
repress those vapours which the head invade
and keeps that palace of the soul serene.”
– Edmund Waller, Of Tea
57. “A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.” – Mary Lou Heiss
58. “The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.” – George Gissing
59. “The path to Heaven passes through a teapot.” – Ancient proverb
60. “Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.” – Letitia Baldrige
We are sure these chai quotes made you fall in love with tea one more time. Feel free to share your own quotes on chai with us through the comment section below.