Tea Stories

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!


Agatha Christie April 17 2025

Agatha Christie

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea


Tea & The Rolling Stones April 16 2025

Mick Jagger is known to drink herbal tea before concerts to soothe his throat. Chamomile, honey, and lemon are his go-to.


Lemony Snicket April 16 2025

Lemony Snicket
Tea should be as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two edged sword (from A Series of Unfortunate Events)


Paul McCartney’s Mum was a Tea Lady April 15 2025

Before her early death, it is rumoured that Mary McCartney worked as a visiting nurse who was affectionately called “the tea lady” in her Liverpool neighborhood.


Arnold Bennett. How to live on 24 hours a day April 15 2025

Arnold Bennett. How to live on 24 hours a day
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour


Tea Saved George Orwell’s Sanity (Sort Of) April 14 2025

Orwell believed in the therapeutic powers of tea and even wrote an essay titled “A Nice Cup of Tea” outlining his 11 golden rules for the perfect brew.


Alan Partridge April 14 2025

Alan Partridge
Putting a damp spoon back in the sugar bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle with an addict


Beatles & Tea April 13 2025

The Beatles often requested tea backstage at shows — John Lennon once joked, "We’re more into a cuppa than we are into champagne.”


The Boston Tea Party Misconception April 12 2025

The American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor in 1773 — but it wasn’t loose leaf tea. It was compressed bricks of Chinese tea called Bohea.


Sir Patrick Stewart's Tea Obsession April 11 2025

Although his "Star Trek" character Captain Picard famously said “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot,” Stewart himself wasn’t a tea drinker until fans kept sending him boxes — he finally gave in and became a tea lover!


Gerald Durrell. My Family And Other Animals April 11 2025

Gerald Durrell. My Family And Other Animals
Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam, and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl


James Boswell, London Journal 1762-1763 April 09 2025

James Boswell, London Journal 1762-1763
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy!