Tea Stories

The late John Bonham October 11 2017

"I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan."


Nikita Khruschev October 10 2017

"The people pay little attention to what we say, and prefer to read tea leaves."

Arthur Golden October 09 2017

"You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it next morning in the newspapers."

Ronnie Biggs (Great Train Robber) October 08 2017

"It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also correct." (I wonder what he really was then?)

Cynthia Payne October 07 2017

"My biographer said that my parties reminded him of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in."

John Stuart Blackie October 03 2017

"Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts."

Boy George October 02 2017

"I'd rather have a cup of tea than sex."

Edmund Waller October 01 2017

"Tea does our fancy aid, represses those vapors which the head invade, and keeps that palace of the soul serene."

Arthur W. Pinero September 30 2017

"Where there's tea there's hope."

Alice Walker September 28 2017

"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."

Thomas de Quincey September 27 2017

"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual."

Zola Budd September 26 2017

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

Chaim Potok September 25 2017

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."

Sen Rikyu September 24 2017

"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."


Ralph Waldo Emerson September 23 2017

"There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tera."

Catherine Douzel September 22 2017

"Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage."

Japanese proverb September 21 2017

"If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty."

George Orwell September 20 2017

"All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes."

Douglas Adams September 19 2017

"A cup of tea would restore my normality.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon September 18 2017

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

Lin Yutang September 17 2017

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

Now this has nothing to do with tea, but I thought it would get your attention September 16 2017

"I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich." 

Donald Trump


The Beatles and Tea! (This is an oldie that just popped up again) September 14 2017



It's time to start thinking about Holiday Gifts September 11 2017

Watch out for a little video clip from moi, coming to a device near you very soon.