The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice … yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely...

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they’re freaked out: drinking tea.

I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.

What part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly plant was introduced among us! Why myriads of women have cried over it, to be sure! […] Nature meant very kindly by...

While there is tea, there is hope.”(Sweet Lavender)

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

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

Eva: I don’t want any tea. Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

That’s not my cup of tea.

Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea?

That’s what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that’s how I see it.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it’s not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.

Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted...

I laughed so hard I nearly spit out my hot tea. The strange part was the fact that I was drinking coffee at that moment.

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It...

No milk,” I said.”No milk,” said my sister.I watched my dad think about this. He looked like he was going to suggest that we have something for breakfast that you do not need milk for,...

If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones – the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically

Boring Tea,” read the other. The Human drawn there looked content, but indifferent.

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her shawl looked particularly...

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

I treat strangers like friends, friends like family, and family like strangers. And I make love like a cup of coffee that likes a cup of tea.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.

When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on...

If you are cold, tea will warm you;if you are too heated, it will cool you;If you are depressed, it will cheer you;If you are excited, it will calm you.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

Drinking tea with a pinch of imagination!

In Ireland, you go to someone’s house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you’re really just fine. She asks if you’re sure. You say of...

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.”Is there any tea on this spaceship?” he asked.

In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson’s favourite economy.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

The Tea PartyI had a little tea partyThis afternoon at three.’Twas very small-Three guest in all-Just I, myself and me.Myself ate all the sandwiches,While I drank up the tea;’Twas also I who ate the pieAnd...

She is the girl from the Rainbows,with Twinie eyes and Silky hair…She is short, she is Cute, Her Smile will put you on mute…She is Quick, she is Fast, she is Witty,As Sweet as Kitty…She...

It’s a lot like the Wild West out here… just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.Is the glass part full or part empty?Take another sip.And now?

I don’t want tea, I want justice!

The order never varies. Two slices of bread-and-butter each, and China tea. What a hide-bound couple we must seem, clinging to custom because we did so in England. Here, on this clean balcony, white and...

My thermos does such a good job of keeping my tea hot that it feels like I’m drinking iced tea.

His guests found it fun to watch him make tea — mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies.

In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

Tea! That’s all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses.

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who’d just smoked a...

Tea should be taken in solitude.

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.