Where there's tea there's hope

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:02:59 +0100

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

- C.S. Lewis

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:51:00 +0000

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”

- Henry Fielding, “Love in Several Masques”

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Wed, 30 May 2012 21:49:46 +0100

Epic super slow motion tea time with Alan Rickman (via @techland...

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:06:31 +0100

Epic super slow motion tea time with Alan Rickman (via @techland and @maxilyse)

"A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water"

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:04:33 +0100

“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I always fear that creation will expire before teatime"

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:34:00 +0000

“I always fear that creation will expire before teatime”

- Sydney Smith

"Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:33:00 +0000

“Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

- Okakura Kazuzo

Tea is liquid wisdom. ~Anonymous

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:51:00 +0000

Tea is liquid wisdom.

~Anonymous

"If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:41:00 +0000

“If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.”

- Japanese Proverb

"We haven’t had any tea for a week…. The bottom is out of the Universe."

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:10:00 +0000

“We haven’t had any tea for a week…. The bottom is out of the Universe.”

- Rudyard Kipling

"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves -..."

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:37:00 +0000

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing towards the future.”

- Thich Nat Hahn

Founder in 1966 of the Order of Interbeing, and one of the most influential Buddhist teachers to operate in the West, he evolved the practice of ‘Engaged Buddhism’, which combines meditation and political action (all washed down with a nice cup of tea).

"Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the..."

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:13:00 +0000

“Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in the morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and adore thee.”

- Colley Cibber

"Where there’s tea there’s hope."

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:54:00 +0000

“Where there’s tea there’s hope.”

- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero