Tea Stories

William Faulkner May 18 2025

William Faulkner

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies


Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit May 16 2025

Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Peter was not very well during the evening. His Mother put him to bed and made some chamomile tea. She read the label which said one table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime


Tahereh Mafi. Destroy Me. May 14 2025

Tahereh Mafi. Destroy Me.
Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day. Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting show of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl


Agony May 13 2025

Agony
There is a special name for what happens when tea leaves uncurl as boiling water is poured over them, it is called the agony of the leaves. Oh, poor little tea leaves


Happiness May 11 2025

Happiness
They say you can't buy happiness, but you can buy tea, and that's about the same thing


Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White) May 09 2025

Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White)
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody


Lin Yutang. The Importance of Living May 07 2025

Lin Yutang. The Importance of Living
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life


Ann Patchett May 05 2025

Ann Patchett
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon


Rachel Hawkins. Demonglass May 05 2025

Rachel Hawkins. Demonglass
Quoting the significance of tea to the Brits, she said: “Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they are freaked out: drinking tea


Keo Ozura. The Book of Tea May 03 2025

Keo Ozura. The Book of Tea 
Tea is a religion of the art of life


Teaism. The Book of Tea May 02 2025

Teaism. The Book of Tea
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life


Emily Autumn. The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls May 01 2025

Emily Autumn. The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud  


Neil Gaiman April 30 2025

Neil Gaiman
Honestly if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea you don't ask 


Dodie Smith.I Capture the Castle April 28 2025

Dodie Smith.I Capture the Castle
I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.


Jane Austen. Mansfield Park April 26 2025

Jane Austen. Mansfield Park
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea


Lucille Ball’s Tea Talent April 25 2025

Lucille Ball was a tea drinker and even learned to read tea leaves as a party trick — a skill that once got her invited to a séance in Beverly Hills!


Bill Watterson. The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book April 25 2025

Bill Watterson. The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

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


Henry James April 23 2025

Henry James

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


Einstein’s Tea Habit April 22 2025

Albert Einstein drank Darjeeling and green tea while he worked. He believed it helped calm his nerves and sharpen his mind.


Ally Carter. Uncommon Criminals April 22 2025

Ally Carter. Uncommon Criminals
I don't want tea, I want justice


Kakuzo Okakura From “The Book of Tea” April 21 2025

Kakuzo Okakura From “The Book of Tea”
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life


Tea & James Bond April 20 2025

Though known for his martinis, in the original Ian Fleming novels, Bond often drank tea — especially when recovering from injuries.


From The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling April 20 2025

From The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
We had a kettle, we let it leak. Our not repairing it made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week. The bottom is out of the Universe.


The First Iced Tea? April 18 2025

At the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, a tea vendor dumped his hot brew over ice to deal with the summer heat — and iced tea was born!