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.
"This morning's tea makes yesterday distant."
"Tea time is a chance to slow down pull back and appreciate our surroundings."
"I can drink tea until the cows come home, and I love the atmosphere in teashop."
"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
"I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows."|
Lovely afternoon tea display for Valentine's Day High Tea with Mrs. McCartney's Teas and Wines.
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
"Tea is quiet, and our thirst for tea is near far from our craving for beauty."
"Autumn share shine through gaps in the wall. He brews midnight tea by the stove's ruddy light."
From a traditional Taois song.
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.
"Where there's tea there's hope.""
This may be the wine talking, but I love wine.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Tea. I find that it both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea."
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!"
"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."
"The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies."
"Putting a damp spoon back in the sugar bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle.
"The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour."
