Coffee Quotes

"Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment."
Agatha Christie

"Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma."
Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"How sweet coffee tastes! Lovlier than a thousand kisses, sweeter than Muscatel wine!"
Johann Sebastian Bach (Coffee Cantata)

"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce."
Oliver Wendall Holmes Sr.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. [Coffee] is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat.
Author Unknown

Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend.
Author Unknown

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.
Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"

A morning without coffee is like sleep.
Author Unknown

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.
Flash Rosenberg

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.
Author Unknown

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
Author Unknown

Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.
Bob Irwin

Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich.
Author Unknown

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odour to the nostrils.
Henry Ward Beecher

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
Dutch Proverb

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
Alphonse Allais

Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.
Prince Tallyrand

Coffee, n. break fluid.
Author Unknown

Behind every successful woman... is a substantial amount of coffee.
Stephanie Piro

If it ain't caffeinated, it ain't coffee!
Author Unknown

Coffee and tobacco are complete repose.
Turkish Proverb

Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.
Alexander King

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.
The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674

Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Jonathan Swift

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
Alex Levine

Given enough coffee, I could rule the world.
Author Unknown

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.
John Van Druten

Behind every successful woman...is a substantial amount of coffee.
Stephanie Piro

Coffee: creative lighter fluid.
Floyd Maxwell (1957)

My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.'
Penelope Lombard

Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.
Bob Burg

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.
Claudia Roden

I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time.
Steven Wright

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu

On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Porto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass... and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.
Larie Colwin

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
Ernest Hemingway

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
Alex Levine

Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.
Ingrid Bergman

To drink is human, to drink coffee is divine!
Unknown

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
Diane Ackerman