“The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule,I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.”
PG Woodhouse
According to my daughters, my irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.
Neil Gaiman
“The daintiness and yet elegance of a china teacup focuses one to be gentle, to think warmly, and to feel close.”
Carol and Malcom Cohen
I declare,… a man who wishes to make his way in life could do nothing better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
Sydney Smith 1855
A crisis pauses during tea
The daintiness and yet elegance of a china teacup focuses one to be gentle, to think warmly, and to feel close.”
Carol and Malcolm Cohen
Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectively preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go
James Norwood Pratt
beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.
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.
For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.
Bill Drummond
“The perfect cup of tea is the one you’re drinking right now”
Corrine Smith
“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Honore de Balzac
Tea is like the whole world in a small cup.
Zhanna Koivolo
“The very act of preparing and serving tea encourages conversation. The little spaces in time created by teatime rituals call out to be filled with conversation. Even the tea itself–warm and comforting-inspires a feeling of relaxation and trust that fosters shared confidences.”
Emilie Barnes
Come and share a pot of tea, my home is warm and my friendship’s free
Emilie Barnes
Every time I drink hot tea I suddenly feel very sophisticated and I subconsciously begin to
Keith Wynn
gravitate toward a British accent.
The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more serene and genteel times. From a whimsical child’s teapot to an elegant English Teapot, to collectible teapots that adorn some homes,
Barbara Roberts
they are a subtle reminder of all that is good in this world.
“There is no trouble so great or grave
Bernard-Paul Heroux
that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.”
“A cup of tea would restore my normality.”
Douglas Williams
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me hundreds of things.
There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness.
Pojong Sunim
The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind.
Tea’s proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
C S Lewis
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesnt try it on.
Billy Connelly
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 more safe inspirer of social joy.
What a part of confidante has that poor tea pot played ever since the kindly plant was
William Makepeace Thackery
introduced among us! What myriads of women have cried over it, to be sure! What
sick beds it has smoked by! What fevered lips have received refreshment from it! Nature meant very kindly by women when she made the tea-plant; and with a little thought, what a series of pictures and groups the fancy may conjure
up and assemble round the teapot and cup.
“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea”
E M Forster
“One of Francie’s favorite stores was the one which sold nothing but tea, coffee, and spices. It was an exciting place of rows of lacquered bins and strange, romantic, exotics odors. There were a dozen scarlet coffee bins with adventurous words written across the front in black China ink: Brazil! Argentine! Turkish! Java! Mixed Blend!
Betty Smith
The tea was in smaller bins: beautiful bins with sloping covers. They read: Oolong! Formosa! Orange Pekoe!
Black China! Flowering Almond! Jasmine! Irish Tea! The spices were in miniature bins behind the counter.
Their names marches in a row across the shelves: cinnamon– cloves– ginger– all-spice– ball nutmeg–curry– peppercorns– sage– thyme– marjoram.”
Home is where the tea is….
JS Devire
It was very hard to rant whilst accepting a cup of tea
Lauren Willig
Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one
Ancient Chinese Proverb
A good conversation starts with a cup of tea…
Myiesha Carlos
“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, thats when I think life is over.
Audrey Hepburn
“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”
Alan Clark
“That’s what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that’s how I see it.”
Sophia Divry
“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”
The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval
Suasan Allen Toth
poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you’d just as soon stay in
bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with
hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency.
Tea! Bless ordinary, everyday afternoon tea!
Agatha Christie
“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”
Vivian Swift
“A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been
Fennel Hudson
replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.”
I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of the plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight and with tea welcomed the morning.
Samuel Johnson
Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the
pleasures of company.
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