Russian Proverb February 25 2017

As you pour out for your friend, so must you drink. (I know this to be true from my many trips to Russia and Siberia).

Roma Downey February 24 2017

"Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had happened."

Harold Munro "Milk For The Cat" February 23 2017

When the tea is brought in at five o'clock.

And all the net curtains are drawn with care.

The little black cat with the bright green eyes.

Is suddenly purring there.

Anonymous February 22 2017

"This morning's tea makes yesterday distant."

Letitia Baldridge February 21 2017

"Tea time is a chance to slow down pull back and appreciate our surroundings."

Zola Budd February 20 2017

"I can drink tea until the cows come home, and I love the atmosphere in teashop."

Chaim Potok February 19 2017

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."

Gail Carriger February 18 2017

"I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows."|

Valentine's Day at Ye Olde King's Head February 17 2017

Lovely afternoon tea display for Valentine's Day High Tea with Mrs. McCartney's Teas and Wines.

Xu Guangqi February 17 2017

"Tea is a divine herb."

Uson February 16 2017

The sounds of the tea being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window.

Uson, quoted in sasaki Sani, Sado Saijiki

James Norwood Pratt February 14 2017

"Tea is quiet, and our thirst for tea is near far from our craving for beauty."

John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld, The Chinese Art of Tea February 12 2017

"Autumn share shine through gaps in the wall. He brews midnight tea by the stove's ruddy light."

From a traditional Taois song.

The Atlantic Monthly, October 1917 February 11 2017

If afternoon teas had started in the Oligocene Epoch, instead of the seventeenth century, we are convinced that evolution, far from discarding that useful appendage, the tail, would have perfected it. A llittle hand would have evolved at the end of it - such a one as might hold his saucer, while a gentleman sips from his teacup.

Arthur Wing Pinero February 10 2017

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

Talking point February 08 2017

This may be the wine talking, but I love wine.

T. Kingfisher February 07 2017

"Goblin tea resembles al 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."

Jim Anderson, (Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault) February 06 2017

"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."

Christine Feehan, (Hidden Currents) February 05 2017

"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 sin teas."

Beatrix Potter, (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) February 04 2017

"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."

Cassandra Clare, (City of Bones) February 03 2017

"Tea. I find that it both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea."

James Boswell, London Journal 1762-1763 February 02 2017

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 ore safe inspirer of social joy!"

Gerald Durrell, (My Family and Other Animals) February 01 2017

"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."

William Faulkner January 31 2017

"The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies."

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