Tea Stories

479 May 16 2017

The reputation of tea grows all the way from China to Turkey, and traders from that region start bargaining for tea.

400 - 600 May 15 2017

The Chinese began experimenting with tea. They added ginger, spices and oranges to their drinks. At that time, the Chinese believed that tea could help to heal ailments.

From Angie McCartney May 04 2017

On our various trips to Russia and Siberia, as milk was never available, they encouraged me to put a spoonful of raspberry or strawberry jam into each cup, served absolutely boiling hot. I grew to like it. It is similar to taking black tea with honey which is more popular in America.


Elie Wiesel May 03 2017

"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."

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy May 02 2017

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked."

A Synopsis of tea consumption over time April 26 2017

A few thousand years ago, some jungle tribal groups of south-east Asia chewed leaves from the tea plant. Some two thousand years ago, tea was being drunk by a handful of religious communities. A thousand  years ago, it was drunk by millions of Chinese. Five hundred years ago, over half the world's population was drinking tea. During the next 500 years it spread across the planet. Second only to water, tea is more ubiquitous than any other type of drink. Its world consumption is equal to all other manufactured drinks combined, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, carbonated beverages and alcoholic drink.s

Angie McCartney April 25 2017



By George, he's got it! April 23 2017

"I'd rather have a cup of tea than sex."
Boy George

Lisa Cody April 20 2017

"Bernie made the kind of tea a mouse could stand on."

Jeanine Larmoth and Charlotte Turgeon April 19 2017

"Tea quenches tears and thirst."

A. Gilbert April 18 2017

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

P.D. James April 17 2017

"A cup of tea is the British specific against disaster, grief and shock."

Ueda Akinari April 15 2017

"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."

Henry James April 14 2017

Under certain circumstances, there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Chang loo April 14 2017

"Tea is a beverage which not only quenches thirst, but dissipates sorrow."

Dominic Cheung April 13 2017

" If I, the boiling water,

And you, the tea;

Then your fragrance

Has to depend solely upon my plainness

I have to be hot, even boiled

Before we consume each other."


Nambo Sokei April 13 2017

"The truth lies in a bowl of tea."

Hilaire Belloc April 12 2017

"What is Latin for Tea? What? Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."

Sen no Rikyu April 11 2017

If you have one teapot and can brew your tea in it, that will do quite well. How much does he lack himself who must have a lot of things?

Chinese proverb April 09 2017

Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire is the teacher.

Sydney Smith April 08 2017

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. I can drink any quantity when I have not tasted wine; otherwise I am haunted by blue devils by day and dragons by night.

Henry Fielding "Love in Several Masques" April 07 2017

Ha, ha, ha: love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Arthur Wing Pinero April 07 2017

Where's there's tea there's hope.

Du Yu "Ode to Tea" April 06 2017

Tea ... wealth of the earth, blessed with the sweet spirit of heaven.