Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what kind of tea?

The passion of steeped leaves and stewed broth is a philter that triumphs in our veins. It is our heritage, it is our religion, it is the glory of our being. It is our honour...

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

Not tea but blood!

So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one’s own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people...

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

The waitress brought a fresh pot of tea, and Marty refilled his father’s cup and poured a cup for Samantha. Henry in turn filled Marty’s. It was a tradition Henry cherished—never filling your own cup,...

I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea,” said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. “And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn’t...

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed...

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.

…Tea. There is nothing saner than tea, he thought. … Tea was the great leveler. It brought calm, quiet, contentment, warmth. And it was something to do. …..Tea– so normal, so mundane, so hot……The heat...

My flat’s about half a mile away, and you know what I’d like most of all in the world? I’d like a cup of tea. Come on, let’s go and put the kettle on.

For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.

Two things consistently bring me pleasure: hot sweet tea and writing. Which is not to say that either are particularly good for me…I use entirely too much sugar and so far don’t find sucralose to...

There is no problem on earth that can’t be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

Thank the heavens for tea. How did people ever come together without it?

In 2010, the BBC spent nearly £230,000 on tea, but only £2000 on biscuits.

When I am at my work each dayIn the fields so fresh and greenI often think of riches and the way things might have beenBut believe me when I tell you when I get home...

The leaves that remain are only a very small part of the tea. The tea that goes into me is a much bigger part of the tea. It is the richest part.We are the same;...

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.