Tea Stories
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.Du Yu - "Ode to Tea" April 05 2017
The thick froth ... lustrous like freshly fallen snow, and resplendent like the spring's blossom.Author unknown April 04 2017
The froth of tea burns with brilliance.Samuel Johnson, 1757 April 03 2017
Mr. Hanway endeavours to show that the consumption of tea is injurious to the interests of our country. He is to expect little justice from the author of this extract, a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with the only infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.Author unknown April 02 2017
Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.Lo T'ung April 01 2017
The first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second breaks my loneliness. The third searches my barren entrails but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration - all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified. The sixth calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup - ah! but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and draft away thither.Chio Jen March 31 2017
The first bowl washed the cobwebs from my mind. The whole world seemed to sparkle. A second cleansed my spirit like purifying showers of rain. A third, and I was one of the Immortals - what need now for austerities? To purge our human sorrows? Worldly people going in for wine, sadly deceive themselves. For now I know the Way of Tea is real.Chiao Jen March 29 2017
Having picked some tea, he drank it
Then he sprouted wings
And flew to a fairy mansion
To escape the emptiness of the world.
Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men In A Boat) March 27 2017
"It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomachs wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs and bacon, it ways, "work!" After beefsteak and porter, it says"sleep!" After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes), it says to the brain, "now rise and show your strength. Be eloquent and deep and tender; see, with a clear eye into nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you and up through long lanes of flaming stares to the gates of eternity!"