Tea time Quotes and Pictures

"Come and share a pot of tea, My home is warm and my friendship's free."
Author: Emilie Barne.

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and
sings,
musically. 
- Rabindranath Tagore
 

"Tea pot is on, cups are waiting. Favorite chairs anticipating. No matter what I have to 
do, My friend, there's always time for you."

"Tea and books- Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasure that together bring near-bliss"~ Christine Hanrah

               

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. - Anonymous

With the invention  of tea bags, people have stopped taking the trouble of making tea. 
Here is a nice Tea Trivia : The Invention of Teabags
We owe this handy invention to Thomas Sullivan, a New York merchant who, in 1904, decided to stop selling loose tea leaves in cans and start selling tea in small handmade silk bags.
His clients discovered that it was not necessary to take the tea out of the bag to prepare the infusion; instead, they could just pour water directly over the bags.
This helped them avoid the hassle of straining the infusion . Thus teabags began to be marketed and were immediately successful, due to their practicality..

But I still prefer brewing tea in a Tea Pot and make it just as the English do, believe me that is the best way to do.

 But in India, we have people putting everything , like milk, sugar, tea leaves everything together along with water and boiling them together,  thereby killing the very taste and the aroma of tea altogether.

Some more beautiful quotes:

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. ~Gladstone, 1865

If I could take your Troubles,
I would toss them in the Sea.
But since I can't, I'm sending you,
My favorite cup of tea.


I cannot sit and chat with you,
the way I'd like to do.
So brew yourself a cup of tea,
I'll think of you, you think of me.
Author Unknown.


When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. 

Desmond Tutu

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds the tea the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?"~ Kahlil Gibran

“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up”~ Ogden Nash Quotes (American Writer of humorous poetry who won a large following for his audacious verse. 1902-1971)

This is a beautiful Tiles tray from Portugal, the cups with lids are from Sikkim, and next to them the small cute cups are from Spain,(but bought here in India). The green ones have served us for  more than 20 years and are still serving us.

Some little facts about my Green Tea Pot:

Although it looks very plain, it at least more than 60 years old, it belongs to my parents and I remember we had a similar one in pure white. I always liked to make tea in a Tea Pot and when I got married I took this with me. It is made in Great Britain. I am sure the white Tea pot is also still there with my parents lying unused in some cupboard.

 The Black small tea cups with the black tray are a set. It is called Stoneware and this is a speciality of Manipure from a place called Bhishnupore. I found it in an exhibition, and immediately fell for it, and bought it. It feels so good to have tea from it : feels as if you are drinking tea from a Kullad, an earthen cup.

 Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!' 
Conan O' Brien 

The row of Mugs are just for show for I can never drink so much of coffee or tea, they too huge for my standard.

 So here ends my Tea time  quotes and tea time stories of Tea pots and Tea Cups.

Do you have any such stories?