Tea Drinking

Sen no Rikyu Tea Master

"Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know."

Zola Budd Athlete

"I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops."

Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

"I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning."

Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

"Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence."