Tea Stories

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!


Cassandra Clare. City of Bones April 07 2025

Cassandra Clare. City of Bones
Tea. I find that it both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea


Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit April 04 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: One tablespoonful to be taken at bedtime


Christine Feehan. Hidden Currents April 02 2025

Christine Feehan. Hidden Currents
Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas


Jim Anderson, (Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault) April 01 2025

Jim Anderson, (Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault)
If you want to fight hell and the powers of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It's called Taking your Daughter out for tea. This works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives


T. Kingfisher March 31 2025

T. Kingfisher
Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the common tabby. They share a name, but one is a nice thing to curl up with on a rainy afternoon, the other is found in the muck at the bottom of polluted rivers and has bits of debris sticking to it


Anonymous March 30 2025

Anonymous

This may be the wine talking, but I love wine


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