Tea Stories

Ralph Waldo Emerson January 16 2025

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.


Sen Rikyu January 16 2025

Sen Rikyu

Tea is nought but this:  First you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know


Chaim Potok January 16 2025

Chaim Potok
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things


Thomas de Quincey January 16 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


Alice Walker January 16 2025

Alice Walker
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors


Arthur W. Pinero January 16 2025

Arthur W. Pinero
Where there's tea there's hope


Edmund Waller January 16 2025

Edmund Waller
Tea does our fancy aid, represses those vapours which the head invades, and keeps that palace of the soul serene


John Stuart Blackie January 16 2025

John Stuart Blackie
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babies, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts


Cynthia Payne January 16 2025

Cynthia Payne
My biographer said that my parties reminded him of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in


Henry Fielding January 16 2025

Henry Fielding
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea


Josh Billings January 16 2025

Josh Billings
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal


Phyllis Battelle January 16 2025

Phyllis Battelle
A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea


Hillaire Belloc January 16 2025

Hillaire Belloc
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone


Janice Dickinson January 16 2025

Janice Dickinson
I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down


John Osborne January 16 2025

John Osborne
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea


David Walliams, British Actor, Comedian January 16 2025

David Walliams, British Actor, Comedian
In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. You’ve lost your face/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example, a Scotch egg or a sausage roll


Frances Hardinge January 16 2025

Frances Hardinge

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept


Ronnie Biggs (Great Train Robber) January 16 2025

Ronnie Biggs (Great Train Robber)
It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also correct. 

(I wonder what he really was then?)


Nikita Khruschev January 16 2025

Nikita Khruschev
The people pay little attention to what we say, and prefer to read tea leaves


John Bonham - Led Zeppelin January 16 2025

John Bonham - Led Zeppelin

I dare not drink alcohol before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan


Sheena Easton January 16 2025

Sheena Easton
I'd make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work


Carrie Bradshaw January 16 2025

Carrie Bradshaw
I'd much rather be someone's shot of whisky than everyone's cup of tea


Alexander Pushkin January 16 2025

Alexander Pushkin
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth


Boy George January 16 2025

Boy George
I'd rather have a cup of tea than sex