At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

I was fairly solitary. I didn’t like structured learning. People didn’t seem to be my cup of tea.

Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The […] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

he is your special friend.

No, she did not want to go to hospital. Yes, she would like a cup of tea. Only then did she begin to think rationally again.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe — the only lady private detective in Botwana — brewed tea. And three mugs — one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client....

Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.

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.Your entire family...

Like any good Englishman, he detests emotions and prefers a healthy dose of denial and tea.

I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.

A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urnThrows up a steamy column and the cupsThat cheer but not inebriate, wait...

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

I don’t like tea! Never have, never drunk it.

I shouldn’t think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea; she dressed as if for dinner. The tea-table offered an anomalous and picturesque repast; and on leaving it they all sat and talked in the large...

I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of...

The art of tea, whichever way you drink it, or whichever country you are from, has one underlining thread for all of us. It is the cultivation of yourself as you follow the ceremony of...

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

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.

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is...

As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There’s a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother’s pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of...

..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

I grinned. “I’m anybody’s for a cuppa and a biscuit.

I like tea so much that I’m considering changing my name to Bergamot so that I can exist in a perpetual state of Earl Grey contentment.

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. …. But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she’d also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

I don’t drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one side …”(Englishman in New York)

I like the pause that tea allows.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so.

He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window,...

The best thing about being a writer is that ‘work’ is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

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.