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.

The hour […] can be anywhere between three and six o’clock in the afternoon. The general rule is that the earlier tea is served, the lighter the refreshments. At three, tea is usually a snack...

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I...

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to...

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don’t you think?

The Chinese say it’s better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three?And is there honey still for tea?

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Do ghosts drink tea?They don’t, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It’d be lovely.

This will not do,’ he said to himself. ‘If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must stop! I promised the doctor I would not take tea. Faith, he was...

Tea carries within itself; knowledge, wisdom, and wellness; for the sake of giving.

It’s all right,’ he insisted, ‘I’m perfectly well. Thought I heard, well, a noise that startled me. But it was nothing. Just overcome with the tea fumes, I expect

The usual for me.” The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta.

With melted snow I boil fragrant tea.

life is like a teabag; you end up dead, replaced and forgotten.

It was never going to be easy chasing those runs. We decided to launch the chase at tea time, but maybe we should have done so an hour earlier.

Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while she talks.”Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not knowWhat life is, you...

In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring her tea, which she steeps with the kind of Zen...

Putting a damp spoon back in the bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle. And I did not want to end up with the tea-drinking equivalent of AIDS.

Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.

A cat purring on your lap while you sip hot tea, is there anything better? Oh, and you’re floating in a zero gravity environment.

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [… It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and...

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

Her tea basket was still lost, but that didn’t seem to matter now. People used to eat loose tea on long journeys. They’d pack it into hard little cakes they’d pull out later, to gnaw...

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

it is to be savored like a seabreeze-whispereddream…in the mysteriousblue minutesbefore dawnlike a secretinfatuation…. like slowlanguorous sipsof green tea… like a lingeringglimpsea self-wrappedparadiselike his name upon my lips.

I’d much rather be someone’s shot of whiskey than everyone’s cup of tea.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.”[From: 19 Lessons On Tea]

Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can’t be...

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at...