Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

It's not my cup of tea.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.