A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
A.A. Milne
Rather without food for three days than tea for one.
Ancient Chinese Proverb
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.
Billy Connolly
Bread and water can so easily be tea and toast.
Unknown
Ecstasy is a glassful of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Aleksandr Pushkin
Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched.
Jonathan Swift
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! I am glad I was not born before tea.
Sydney Smith
Harry found the tea seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.
J.K. Rowling
I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.
Lu Tung
Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?
Noel Coward
There is no trouble so great or grave that it cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.
Bernard-Paul Heroux
Where there's tea there's hope.
Arthur Pinero
If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
Japanese Proverb

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At driftwood tea we love tea - its history, its growth, its production - but most importantly we love its taste. Every loose leaf tea we stock we do so because we believe it tastes great. When selecting loose leaf teas to stock we focus on their flavour and freshness over grades of leaf or wonderfully exotic names. We are confident that our 'flavour first' approach can be tasted in each and every loose leaf tea found in our online tea shop.

About James


James Henderson Robe is a former Personal Chef to the Dutch Ambassador and tea connoisseur - with over ten years experience sourcing and selecting premium loose leaf tea for clients around the world. James personally selects each and every loose leaf tea for our online tea shop by following the driftwood team's simple but passionate ideology - flavour first - meaning we only sell teas that actually taste great.


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