Tea Stories
Russian Proverb March 12 2025
Russian Proverb
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)
Edmund Waller March 11 2025
Edmund Waller
Tea does our fancy aid, represses those vapours which the head invades, and keeps that palace of the soul serene
Our latest Newsletter is here! March 09 2025
Are you ready for St. Paddy's Day?
St. Patrick's Day is historically observed through a number of traditions. These include preparing food like corned beef and cabbage, Irish Stew, musical gatherings called "céilí," and decorating with symbols like shamrocks and leprechauns.
It turns out, leprechauns are supposedly why we wear green on St. Patrick's Day: as allegedly they can't see the colour green, so they won't be able to see you and pinch you if you're rocking emerald or chartreuse shades.
Warm wishes and... here's your Gaelic lesson for today...
A Nice Cup of Tea in the Evening Standard, 12th January 1946 March 08 2025
A Nice Cup of Tea in the Evening Standard, 12th January 1946
I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar. You could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water
George Orwell March 05 2025
George Orwell
I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than 20 weak ones. All true tea-lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes
Chinese Proverb March 03 2025
Chinese Proverb
Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary
Wilkie Collins March 01 2025
Wilkie Collins
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody
Thich Nat Hahn February 28 2025
Thich Nat Hahn
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves, slowly evenly, without rushing toward the future
Pojong Sunim February 26 2025
Pojong Sunim
There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking, except one of thankfulness. The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind
Uson. Sasaki Sanmi, Sado Saijiki February 25 2025
Uson. Sasaki Sanmi, Sado Saijiki
The sounds of tea being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window
Rob Temple. So Very British February 24 2025
Rob Temple. So Very British
The heartbreak of finding an empty teacup when you thought there was one gulp to go. (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time, 2013).This is a very funny book
Agnes Repplier: To Think of Tea! February 24 2025
Agnes Repplier: To Think of Tea!
Tea takes us to a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting, waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 1903 February 22 2025
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 1903
One of the shining moments of my day is when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, outdoor coat for an easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray. How delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot! What a glow does it bring after a walk in the chilly rain!
A. Gilbert February 20 2025
A. Gilbert
Gin is cheering and wine makes the heart of a man, but when you're in a real turmoil, there's nothing like a good strong cup of tea
George Gissing February 18 2025
George Gissing
Perhaps it is whilst drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure
Lin Yutang February 14 2025
Lin Yutang
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life
William Gladstone February 12 2025
William Gladstone
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed it will cheer you; if you are excited it will calm you
Soshitsu Sen XV, quoted b Kenneth S.Cohen February 10 2025
Soshitsu Sen XV, quoted b Kenneth S.Cohen
A cup of tea is a cup of peace
James Norwood Pratt February 07 2025
James Norwood Pratt
Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty
T'ien Yi-heng February 05 2025
T'ien Yi-heng
Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world
Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men In A Boat) February 04 2025
Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men In A Boat)
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomachs will do so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs and bacon, it works! After beefsteak and porter, it says
sleep! After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand for 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!
Mu Tiang February 03 2025
Mu Tiang
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.
Having picked some tea, he drank it
Then he sprouted wings
And flew to a fairy mansion
To escape the emptiness of the world.