Tea Stories
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
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
Phyllis Battelle January 16 2025
Phyllis Battelle
A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea
Hillaire Belloc January 16 2025
Hillaire Belloc
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone
Janice Dickinson January 16 2025
Janice Dickinson
I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down
John Osborne January 16 2025
John Osborne
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea
David Walliams, British Actor, Comedian January 16 2025
David Walliams, British Actor, Comedian
In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. You’ve lost your face/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example, a Scotch egg or a sausage roll
Frances Hardinge January 16 2025
Frances Hardinge
Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept