Muriel Barbery. The Elegance of the Hedgehog June 13 2025

Muriel Barbery. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a feel of infinity in a single moment?

Lin Yutang. The Importance of Living June 11 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

Henry James June 10 2025

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

Theodore Roosevelt. In a letter dated 1912 June 10 2025

Theodore Roosevelt. In a letter dated 1912
My experience convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Africa, I took no brandy, even when sick, taking tea instead

Audrey Hepburn June 09 2025

Audrey Hepburn
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over

Royal S. Copeland. Times for Tea June 07 2025

Royal S. Copeland. Times for Tea
The most trying hours in life are between four o'clock and the evening meal. A cup of tea at this time adds a lot of comfort and happiness

Charles Dickens June 06 2025

Charles Dickens
My dear, if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head, I should better understand your affairs. And we had the tea - and the affairs too

Monty Python June 03 2025

Monty Python
Make Tea, not war

James Norwood Pratt June 02 2025

James Norwood Pratt
Tea to satisfy our cravings. Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty

From The Minister of Leaves June 01 2025

From The Minister of Leaves
Enjoy life sip by sip, not gulp by gulp

Rev. Sydney Smith May 31 2025

Rev. Sydney Smith
I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time   

Anonymous May 30 2025

Anonymous
Love and Scandal are the best sweeteners of tea 

Old Chinese Saying May 30 2025

Old Chinese Saying
Kissing is like drinking tea through a tea strainer - you're always thirsty afterwards

Ancient Chinese Proverb May 28 2025

Ancient Chinese Proverb
Tea sustains us. Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one

Abraham Lincoln May 27 2025

Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, then bring me tea; but if this is tea, then please bring me some coffee

Frances Hardinge May 26 2025

Frances Hardinge
Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept

Alan Clark May 24 2025

Alan Clark
There are few things nicer than sitting up in bed, drinking a nice strong cup of tea, and reading.

E.M. Forster May 23 2025

E.M. Forster
While her lips talked about culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

The Diary of Virginia Woolf May 22 2025

The Diary of Virginia Woolf
1919... and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

Christine Feehan. Hidden Currents May 21 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

James Boswell in The London Journal 1762-1763 May 20 2025

James Boswell in The 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

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