I looked at Judith. “This sounds strange, but I don’t suppose you saw three mad women with a cauldron of boiling tea pass by this way?””No,” she replied. The polite voice of reasonable people scared...

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

But I daresay, a lass can’t think in a straight line w’out her tea. Sit for a minute. The laird will wait.

As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feetinto the night’s velvet slippersI settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.

The ‘art of tea’ is a spiritual force for us to share.

Good. Bad. The cup holds both.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Love is 60% water, because a human being, the essence of love, is 60% water. But that’s the other 40% made up of? Easy—minty green tea and honey.

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 in teas.

Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of...

Have tea, might write,” Laura returned.

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.”(Essay on Tea, 1757.)

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?’In the old days she’d have been ‘miss’ and he’d have offered her a cocktail.

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.”

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts...

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.

Come and share a pot of tea,my home is warm and my friendship’s free.

He wished he knew how to make tea, wished he even had some to try with. That was what Miss June-bug wanted when she was feeling low, a good cup of tea, and it always...

(Malory, unhopeful: “I don’t suppose you have any tea?” Jesse: “DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?” Malory: “Oh, sweet heavens!”)

We had a kettle; we let it leak:Our not repairing made it worse.We haven’t had any tea for a week…The bottom is out of the Universe.

Iced tea! Nothing is half so refreshing as a glass of black tea piled high with ice! More than a quencher of thirst, it is a tamer of tempers, a lifter of lethargy, and a...

Ten years after the Boston Tea Party, tea was still far more popular than coffee, which only became the more popular drink in the mid-nineteenth century. Coffee’s popularity grew after the duty on imports was...

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly...

I was learning, even in my brief time in England, that a cup of tea almost always helped. I didn’t know whether it was the caffeine, the warmth, or the simple fact of having someone...

After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur’s mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with.He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him...

He was wondering why, in Britain, he could get just about every type of coffee possible, including some he felt were patently ridiculous, but finding a good cup of tea was becoming harder and harder.

Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.

She gave in to a hankering for a cup of tea even though she knew that the idea of a cup of tea-sitting still, calmly sipping-was more appealing than actually sitting still and trying to...

I smile more when people think ‘I am fool

The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the...

Nim handed me a mug of tea. I took a sip and it was just how I like it, strong and sweet. If you added psychotic and emotionally unavailable to that, it would also cover...

You may be the only guy my age I’ve ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it’s in Earl Grey tea.” “Yes, well,” Jace said, with a supercilious look, “I’m not like...

The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I’ll get tea before you.

Coffee, it’s not my cup of tea. Being in love isn’t really my cup of tea either, but when it’s steamy I’ll sip it dutifully.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good.

Stick that bumbershootin elephant’s footbrolly stand behindthe big door. Mindyour manners at High tea.

She’s a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There’s always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.”

You can serve high tea around the dining room table, but afternoon tea is more of a living room occasion, with everything brought in on a tray or a cart.

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,sage and venerable liquid …to whose glorious insipidity,I owe the happiest moments of my life,let me fall prostrate.

When the tea is brought at five o’clockAnd all the neat curtains are drawn with care,The little black cat with bright green eyesIs suddenly purring there.

And now it’s time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who’s here, in time for tea.

She poured out Swann’s tea, inquired “Lemon or cream?” and, on his answering “Cream, please,” said to him with a laugh: “A cloud!” And as he pronounced it excellent, “You see, I know just how...

I hire tea by the tea bag.

Afternoon tea needn’t stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense. How much more we enjoy life when the pretenses are discarded!

An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain’s unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love of tea.