(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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she thought you took too much strong tea. In fact she wants me to...

Have some more tea, dear,” Hester said, reaching for the pot and refilling my cup. “I always find that helps.

On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best...

She raised her hand to cut me off. “I am aware of your epistolary flirtation. Which is all well and good–as long as it’s well and good. Before I ask you some questions, perhaps you...

There is nothing so capital as a cup of tea for settling the Disheveled Nerves of Fair Ladies.

Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with...

I explained to him – as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag – that tea was an infusion, which meant that it was vital for the water to...

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.

The proper, wise balancingof one’s whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.

It is not a cold day, but she looks warmed by the tea. Tea has that effect on people. I love watching it bring comfort.

If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter’s spirit. It...

Tea … is a religion of the art of life.

Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

Tea is just an excuse.i am drinking this sunset, this evening.and you.

Her face was like a pot of tea about to whistle.