Tea Stories

Ueda Akinari January 20 2025

Ueda Akinari
Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest


P.D. James January 19 2025

P.D. James
A cup of tea is the British pacifier against disaster, grief and shock


Jeanine Larmoth and Charlotte Turgeon January 18 2025

Jeanine Larmoth and Charlotte Turgeon

Tea quenches tears and thirst.


Angie McCartney January 18 2025

Angie McCartney
The secret to a happy life is a warm pot of tea, a good sense of humour and a bad memory. I am blessed with all three. I am indeed fortunate


Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy January 18 2025

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Is there any tea on this spaceship? he asked


Elie Wiesel January 18 2025

Elie Wiesel

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal


Anonymous January 18 2025

Anonymous
You can't buy happiness, but you can buy tea


Thomas de Quincey January 18 2025

Thomas de Quincey
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual


Anonymous January 18 2025

Anonymous
I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker the better. I like my heroes to be complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the colour. (Ode to Chocolate.)


Mary Elizabeth Braddon January 18 2025

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea


Douglas Adams January 18 2025

Douglas Adams
A cup of tea would restore my normality


George Orwell January 18 2025

George Orwell

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


Catherine Douzel January 16 2025

Catherine Douzel

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage


Ralph Waldo Emerson January 16 2025

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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


Sen Rikyu January 16 2025

Sen Rikyu

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


Chaim Potok January 16 2025

Chaim Potok
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things


Thomas de Quincey January 16 2025

Thomas de Quincey                                
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual


Alice Walker January 16 2025

Alice Walker
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors


Arthur W. Pinero January 16 2025

Arthur W. Pinero
Where there's tea there's hope


Edmund Waller January 16 2025

Edmund Waller
Tea does our fancy aid, represses those vapours which the head invades, and keeps that palace of the soul serene


John Stuart Blackie January 16 2025

John Stuart Blackie
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babies, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts


Cynthia Payne January 16 2025

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


Henry Fielding January 16 2025

Henry Fielding
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea


Josh Billings January 16 2025

Josh Billings
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal