John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld. The Chinese Art of Tea March 28 2025

John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld. The Chinese Art of Tea
Autumn shares shining through gaps in the wall. He brews midnight tea by the stove's ruddy light

James Norwood Pratt March 27 2025

James Norwood Pratt

Tea is quiet, and our thirst for tea is near far from our craving for beauty

Xu Guangqi March 26 2025

Xu Guangqi
Tea is a divine herb

Gail Carriger March 23 2025

Gail Carriger
I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.

Chaim Potok March 21 2025

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

Letitia Baldridge March 20 2025

Letitia Baldridge
Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings

Anonymous March 18 2025

Anonymous
This morning's tea makes yesterday distant

Harold Munro. Milk For The Cat March 16 2025

Harold Munro. Milk For The Cat
When the tea is brought in at five o'clock.

And all the net curtains are drawn with care.

The little black cat with the bright green eyes.

Is suddenly purring there

Roma Downey March 13 2025

Roma Downey
Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had just happened

Russian Proverb March 12 2025

Russian Proverb
As you pour out for your friend, so must you drink. (I know this to be true from my many trips to Russia and Siberia)

Edmund Waller March 11 2025

Edmund Waller

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

Our latest Newsletter is here! March 09 2025

Are you ready for St. Paddy's Day?

St. Patrick's Day is historically observed through a number of traditions. These include preparing food like corned beef and cabbage, Irish Stew, musical gatherings called "céilí," and decorating with symbols like shamrocks and leprechauns.

It turns out, leprechauns are supposedly why we wear green on St. Patrick's Day: as allegedly they can't see the colour green, so they won't be able to see you and pinch you if you're rocking emerald or chartreuse shades.

Warm wishes and... here's your Gaelic lesson for today...

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A Nice Cup of Tea in the Evening Standard, 12th January 1946 March 08 2025

A Nice Cup of Tea in the Evening Standard, 12th January 1946

I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar. You could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water

George Orwell March 05 2025

George Orwell
I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than 20 weak ones. All true tea-lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes

Chinese Proverb March 03 2025

Chinese Proverb
Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary

Wilkie Collins March 01 2025

Wilkie Collins
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody

Thich Nat Hahn February 28 2025

Thich Nat Hahn
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves, slowly evenly, without rushing toward the future

Pojong Sunim February 26 2025

Pojong Sunim
There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking, except one of thankfulness. The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind

Uson. Sasaki Sanmi, Sado Saijiki February 25 2025

Uson. Sasaki Sanmi, Sado Saijiki
The sounds of tea being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window

Rob Temple. So Very British February 24 2025

Rob Temple. So Very British
The heartbreak of finding an empty teacup when you thought there was one gulp to go. (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time, 2013).This is a very funny book

Agnes Repplier: To Think of Tea! February 24 2025

Agnes Repplier: To Think of Tea!

Tea takes us to a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting, waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 1903 February 22 2025

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 1903

One of the shining moments of my day is when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, outdoor coat for an easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray. How delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot! What a glow does it bring after a walk in the chilly rain!

A. Gilbert February 20 2025

A. Gilbert
Gin is cheering and wine makes the heart of a man, but when you're in a real turmoil, there's nothing like a good strong cup of tea

George Gissing February 18 2025

George Gissing
Perhaps it is whilst drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure