Tea Stories
Samuel Johnson, 1757 January 31 2025
Samuel Johnson, 1757
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
Du Yu. Ode to Tea January 30 2025
Du Yu. Ode to Tea
Tea ... wealth of the earth, blessed with the sweet spirit of heaven.
The thick froth ... lustrous like freshly fallen snow, and resplendent like the spring's blossom
Henry Fielding. Love in Several Masques January 29 2025
Henry Fielding. Love in Several Masques
Ha, ha, ha: love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea
Sydney Smith January 28 2025
Sydney Smith
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
Chinese proverb January 27 2025
Chinese proverb
Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire is the teacher
Sen no Rikyu January 26 2025
Sen no Rikyu
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?
Hilaire Belloc January 24 2025
Hilaire Belloc
What is Latin for Tea? What? Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone
Nambo Sokei January 23 2025
Nambo Sokei
The truth lies in a bowl of tea
Dominic Cheung January 22 2025
Dominic Cheung
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
Chang Loo January 21 2025
Chang Loo
Tea is a beverage which not only quenches thirst, but dissipates sorrow
Henry James January 21 2025
Henry James
Under certain circumstances, there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea
Ueda Akinari January 20 2025
Ueda Akinari
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
P.D. James January 19 2025
P.D. James
A cup of tea is the British pacifier against disaster, grief and shock
Jeanine Larmoth and Charlotte Turgeon January 18 2025
Jeanine Larmoth and Charlotte Turgeon
Tea quenches tears and thirst.
Angie McCartney January 18 2025
Angie McCartney
The secret to a happy life is a warm pot of tea, a good sense of humour and a bad memory. I am blessed with all three. I am indeed fortunate
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy January 18 2025
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Is there any tea on this spaceship? he asked
Elie Wiesel January 18 2025
Elie Wiesel
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
Anonymous January 18 2025
Anonymous
You can't buy happiness, but you can buy tea
Thomas de Quincey January 18 2025
Thomas de Quincey
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual
Anonymous January 18 2025
Anonymous
I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker the better. I like my heroes to be complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the colour. (Ode to Chocolate.)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon January 18 2025
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea
Douglas Adams January 18 2025
Douglas Adams
A cup of tea would restore my normality
George Orwell January 18 2025
George Orwell
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes