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- Tea and Water give each other life," the
Professor was saying. "The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water
vitality," he added, "...Afterwards, the taste still happens... It rises
like velvet... It is a performance."
- -Jason Goodwin, The Gunpowder Gardens
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- "Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He
has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are
looking."
- -Agatha Christie, Sleeping Murder
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- "And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde,
From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. 'Now, you really must
join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a
friend of mine gave me for Christmas."
- -Martha Grimes, The Man with a Load of Mischief
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- "While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat
beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation"
- -Arthur Godfrey
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- "'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini,
but make her drink tea."
- -Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields
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- "It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We
were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a
bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what
to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the
sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us
and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday."
- -Niall Williams and Christine Breen, O Come Ye
Back to Ireland
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- "Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He
has Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a
better place."
- -The Wind in the Willows
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- "When all is complete deep in the teapot, when
tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water,
coloring and saturating it...then a glass will be filled and poured back
into the mixture, blending it further. The comes waiting. Motionless
waiting. Finally, from high up, like some green cataract whose sight and
sound mesmerize, the tea will once again cascade into a glass. Now it can
be drunk, dreamily, forehead bowed, fingers held wide away from the
scalding glass."
- -Simone Jacquemard, Le Mariage Berbere
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- "My hour for tea is half-past five, and my
buttered toast waits for nobody."
- -Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
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- "On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing
and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the fire
was a folding-chair, unfolded and with cushions upon it, by the chair was
a small folding-table, unfolded, covered with a white cloth, and upon it
were spread small covered dishes, a cup and saucer, and a tea-pot; on the
bed were new, warm coverings, a curious wadded silk robe, and some books.
The little, cold, miserable room seemed changed into Fairyland. It was
actually warm and glowing. "
- -Frances Hodgson Burnett, Sara Crewe; or What
Happened at Miss Minchin's
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- "He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a
vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like
black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There's
something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes
the way I imagine the Far East must taste."
- -Peter Hoeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
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- "The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's
tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend
that it was anything but tea."
- -Frances Hodgson Burnett
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- "A Little Princess...it's always tea-time... "
- -Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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- "I hope next time when we meet, we won't be
fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together."
- - Jackie Chan, Rumble in the Bronx
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- "Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island 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, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. 'I
am', he sighed deeply, 'contented as a clam. I am a most happy man."
- -Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea
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- "Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea
before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back
into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even
they become big things."
- -Jan Karon, These High, Green Hills
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- "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. And whoever this "Earl
Grey" fellow is, I'd like to have a word with him... "
- -Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek, The Next Generation
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- "Deep Space 9 Pour me a little more tea, would
you dear? I can drink it till it comes out of my ears."
- -Garek, Star Trek,
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- "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
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- "Thank God for tea! What would the world do
without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea."
- -William Gladstone, British Prime Minister.
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- "My dear, if you could give me a cup of tea to
clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs."
- -Charles Dickens
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- "[I am] a hardened and shameless tea drinker,
who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of the
fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the
midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning.
- -Samuel Johnson
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- "I always fear that creation will expire before
teatime."
- -Sidney Smith
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- "The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with
the pith of an Indian Cane."
- -Joseph Addison
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- "Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of
sugar in the mouth"
- -Alexander Puskin
- "I don't drink coffee; I take tea, my dear."
- -Sting, An Englishman in New York
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- "Tea with lemon please"
- -Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
      Copyright © 1998 Tealand.
All rights reserved.
Revised:
April 21, 2008.
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