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Don't stir the tea with your penis.
A rack of mugs rested alongside. There were two hand-drawn labels affixed to the decanters. "Happy Tea!" read one, above a drawing of a wide-eyed, grinning Human with frizzy hair standing on end. "Boring Tea," read the other. The Human drawn there looked content, but indifferent.
Drinking tea with a pinch of imagination!
Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.
There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.
Oh, the English! They are always thinking of tea. They carry it by the kilogram, and they are so clumsy that they always pack it at the top.
When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea
The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...
Coffee and chocolate are certainly wonderful, but they must forever carry tea's silken train, ever the bridesmaids and never the bride.
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.
We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.
I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.
There was an avocado green slow cooker, a venerable coffeemaker, two coffee grinders, and a blender. These were the tools of the modern witch, though Sarah kept a big black cauldron by the fireplace for old times' sake.
Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
A cup of tea is a cup of peace.
Tea is the elixir of life.
When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.
With melted snow I boil fragrant tea.
Tea no more! Down with bustles!
What did you do?" "Well, you see, there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there ... " He trailed off.
"Useful thing, tea," commented Lyall thoughtfully.
Tea quenches tears and thirst.
Oh, God," Shannon moans. "We have to boil water," I tell Kenny. "She wants Cup-a-Soup?" "No, it's to sterilize things." "What's that?" I start rummaging through my house looking for anything useful. I get a knife, scissors, salad tongs, clothespins, a bottle of whiskey. Kenny
(now that tea was no longer acceptable),
I think just a cup of tea...' There was something to be said for tea and a comfortable chat about crematoria.
I recalled an economics professor in Fujian who spoke to me of China's inevitable return to the top of the world order. It was just a matter of time.
"I have teapots older than your country," the professor said, sipping his tea. "And they're /very/ sturdy teapots.
Tea carries within itself; knowledge, wisdom, and wellness; for the sake of giving.
The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action.
The 'art of tea' is a spiritual force for us to share.
It was time for tea as it so often was.
When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.
Tsze-kung asked, "What do you think of me?" The Master said, "You are a pot." "What sort of pot?" "A precious ritual vase.
Earthenware or pure gold, what goes into them for certain purposes establishes what they are; whatever their fundamental constitution as vessels, when full of shit (for example) they can only be shit pots.108
showed where the ancient pewter teapot had leaked. At the other end was a scattering of crumbs left by the
I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.
This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock.
Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.
Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.
I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.
His guests found it fun to watch him make tea
mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies.
Tea should be taken in solitude.
How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
A hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
James: Mugs can be used for all sorts of things. Tea, soup, ice cream. But after my mug stage, I kept with my utilitarian impulse and pursued plate making.
Lucy: How big were your plates?
James: They were plate-size.
A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.
Thank the heavens for tea. How did people ever come together without it?
I guess nothing says 'I'm sorry' like a tea cozy.
Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles!
A good pot holds memories.
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.
It's always tea-time.
To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity,
I owe the happiest moments of my life,
let me fall prostrate.
But what kind of person makes tea in a blender?
Cracked pots allow the treasure to shine forth.
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. What else does a detective agency really need?
There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.
The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong
I don't want to make a tea set. I want to make crystal, as the wonderful Billy Wiseass would put it. That poor bastard has it good: he's never experienced love. It'll be easy for him to write a romance novel.
Not tea but blood!
Eleanor had bargained for their wedding present, the dragon-spouted teapot worth thousands and the cups to match, gold-leafed, scaly.
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them.
There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg
Must a kettle boil?
In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy.
I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the perfect pet bowls. The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike.
There's something so comforting to me about having a cup of tea, and it really needs to be made with love - I can taste the difference.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.
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 tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying Wait.
There's something amazing about tea. It's good before a meal, after a meal, when drunk, when taking drugs, while playing football and after being called a poof in the street.
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
Tea is a huge part of my life.
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible.
Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.
Do you know what happened to Teacup?"
"Ran away with the spoon, what I heard.
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
(Essay on Tea, 1757.)
The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.
Frank made a face; an Englishman to the bone, he would rather lap water out of the toilet than drink tea made from teabags. The Lipton's had been left by Mrs. Grossman, the weekly cleaning woman, who thought tea made from loose leaves messy and disgusting.
Oh my dear fellow ... should you not be askind, 'Would the tea like the cup?
A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time.
Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Tea. It was not a perfect way to live one's life,
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.
I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
newly purchased herbal teabags
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.