“Would you like an adventure now…. or would you like to have your tea first?” Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude…. – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

A cup of tea is a cup of peace. – Soshitsu Sen XV, quoted by Kenneth S. Cohen

The man breathed in deeply—of rosebuds and mint, of sunny meadows and salty cliffs, of streams in no hurry and the sound of bagpipes. – Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea, 1993

If she speaks, it will only be a pleasant word or two; should she have anything important to say, the moment will be after tea, not before it; this she knows by instinct. – George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903 (of the housekeeper b