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.

He loved happiness like I love tea.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Charming, charming,’ the lawyer said at intervals.

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a...

Vol picks up the cup of tea in both hands and takes a long sip. Mm, grass-clippings. Her favourite.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

I. At TeaTHE kettle descants in a cosy drone,And the young wife looks in her husband’s face,And then in her guest’s, and shows in her ownHer sense that she fills an envied place;And the visiting...

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and...

Recite the Periodic Table of Teatime, in correct order, with Elemental Symbols, please.’A-Through-L sat back on his handsome black haunches, shut his eyes, and said: ‘Hot Tea (H), Herbal Tea (He), Lingonberry Scones (Li), Berry...

Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.

She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the...

The problem with the Tea Party is that it’s been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that’s counter to their own interests.

Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.”I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.””You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s...

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,Yet let’s be merry; we’ll have tea and toast;Custards for supper, and an endless hostOf syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,And other such ladylike luxuries.

As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmares,...

I take a few quick sips. “This is really good.” And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting.”This is from Grand Auntie,” my mother explains....

TEAI like pouring your tea, liftingthe heavy pot, and tipping it up,so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup.Or when you’re away, or at work,I like to think of your cupped hands as you...

I am greedy with water. I made your apology tea dry. I’m sorry. You might try snorting it out of the bag.

And listen–tell your friend to try English Breakfast net time. It’s a little more robust. Earl Grey is really more of a ‘Sense and Sensibility’ kind of tea.Cab driver to J.D. Jameson

The tea-masters held that real appreciation of art is only possible to those who make of it a living influence. Thus they sought to regulate their daily life by the high standard of refinement which...

I’d watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.

You’ll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I couldn’t find my cup of tea.So probably, I’ve been simply taking a sip from everyone else’s cup. May be it shouldn’t matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?