If the tea bush were a Christmas tree, pickers would only take leaves from the bough where the star is placed, the very tip, and perhaps a few of the branches with ornaments on them. Sarah Rose “For all the tea in China: Espionage, empire and the secret formula for the world’s favourite drink”
Tea is an addiction, but an addiction different from all others. It is milder, a habit relatively easily broken. It is more universal. Most unusually, it is good for the addict. And it is largely unnoticed both to those addicted and others. Indeed, the conquest of the world by tea has been so successfull that we have forgotten that it has happened at all. Tea has become like water or air, something that many of us take for granted. Alan Macfarlane, “The empire of tea”
Habitual tea drinkers begin to feel restless if they do not get their cup at the usual time. In my opinion, the usefulness of tea, if any, consists in the fact that it supplies a warm sweet drink which contains some milk. The same purpose may well be served by taking boiled hot water mixed with a little milk and sugar. Mahatma Gandhi in “A Key to Health”
I freequently dream of having tea with the Queen. Hugh Grant
Un uomo che vuole farsi strada nella vita non può fare di meglio che andare per il mondo con una bollente teiera in mano. Sydney Smith
I had a little tea party / This afternoon at three. / ‘Twas very small – / Three guest in all – / Just I, myself and me. // Myself ate all the sandwiches, / While I drank up the tea; / ‘Twas also I who ate the pie / And passed the cake to me.
Jessica Nelson North, “The Tea Party”
Bevete, bevete, bevete! L’importante è assaggiare e scoprire nuovi gusti e sfaccettature dell’essenza che possono sprigionare le foglie della pianta del tè: una fonte di sorprese inesauribile!
Elisa Da Rin Puppel, dall’intervista a ‘365 Tealovers’
The British like a strong cup of tea with a liberal splash of milk; the Dutch a mild cup; the East Frisians add cream; on the subcontinent they cook their tea in milk; the Afghans like green tea but the Pakistanis black; the deep south of America drinks it iced; the Burmese eat is as a salad; the Tibetans mix it with butter… the list goes on. The only consistency is the bush that started it all: Camellia sinensis.
Will Battle, The World Tea Encyclopaedia
Una tazza di tè forte è meglio di venti leggere. Al vero amante del tè non piace solo il tè forte, ma un po’ più forte ogni anno che passa.
George Orwell, “A nice cup of tea”
No one is so busy they can’t take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don’t deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway?
Frank McCourt, “‘ Tis: a Memoir”
Blood, sweat, and tea, sister! That’s what it takes to achieve all great and terrible things. Emory R. Frie, “Wonderland”
Arthur guardò gli schermi e sbatté le palpebre: a un tratto gli parve di sentire la mancanza di qualcosa di importante. Ma cosa? Dopo qualche attimo, capì cos’era e chiese: “Si può avere del tè su questa astronave?”.
Douglas Adams, “Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti”
Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.
Jonathan Stroud, ‘The Creeping Shadow’
Quando tutto il resto non funziona, bevi un po’ di tè. Davvero. Rimarrai stupito nel vedere quanti problemi possa risolvere. Ci piace pensarlo come il whiskey di Buddha. Tara Cottrell, “La dieta di Buddha”
Coffee is not my cup of tea
Samuel Goldwyn
I cinesi dicono che meglio stare senza cibo per tre giorni che senza tè per un giorno.
Khaled Hosseini, ‘Mille Splendidi Soli’
Put the kettle on / Put the kettle on / It is the British answer / To Armageddon.
John Agard
One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed. Steven Patrick Morrissey, in un’intervista alla BBC
Il mondo sprofonda se bevo il tè? Bene, sprofondi pure il mondo purché io possa sempre bere il tè.
Fëdor Dostoevskij
Non sono interessato all’immortalità, ma solo al gusto del tè.
Lú Tóng (790–835)
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
Arricchiamo la nostra comunità. Contaminiamo chi ci sta intorno. Diffondiamo la cultura del tè.
Stefano Aliquò, “Fogli di tè”, n. 4, novembre 2017
A che serve parlare di
aromi
colori
sapori.
Bevi e
la tua mente si illuminerà.
Seo Geo-jeong (1420-1488), poeta e scrittore coreano
