Coffee Quotes

Ah yes, we truly love our coffee! Over the years, many people have been moved to eloquence by the taste of a cup of coffee. Impress your friends...drop a few of these around in conversation!

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

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.  Jeff Bezos

Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich. Anon

Coffee has two virtues - it wet and warm. Danish Proverb

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. Honore de Balzac

Coffee falls into the stomach...ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop...the shafters of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similies arise, the paper is covered with ink...Honore de Balzac

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. Dave Barry

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home browned, home, ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, thenderly yellow, perfect sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the java; such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all. Henry Ward Beecher

Liqueurs were not lacking; but the coffee especially deserves mention. It was as clear as crystal, aromatic and wonderfully hot; but, above all, it was not handed around in those wretched vessels called cups on the left banks of the Seine, but in beautiful and capacious bowls, into which the thick lips of the reverend fathers plunged, engulfing the refreshing beverage with a noise that would have done honor to sperm whales before a storm. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. Benjamin Franklin

Coffee in England is just toasted milk. Christopher Fry, New York Post, 1962

Or to some coffee house I stray, for news the manna of the day, and from the hipp'd discourses gather, that politics go by the weather. Matthew Green, Coffee House Poem

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, 1995

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

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea, but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. Abraham Lincoln

If I have a cup of coffee that is too strong for me because it is too black, I weaken it by pouring cream into it. I integrate it with cream. If I keep pouring enough cream in the coffee, pretty soon the entire flavor of the coffee is changed; the very nature of the coffee is changed. If enough cream is poured in, eventually you don't even know that I had coffee in this cup. This is what happened with the March on Washington. The whites didn't integrate it; they infiltrated it. Whites joined it; they engulfed it; they became so much a part of it, it lost is original flavor. It ceased to be a black march; it ceased to be militant; it ceased to be angry; it ceased to be impatient. In fact, it ceased to be a march. Malcom X, 1965

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

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet this love. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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., 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.  Anon.

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

A morning without coffee is like sleep.  Anon.

Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee.  Anon.

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.  Anon.

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.  Anon.

Way too much coffee.  But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.  David Letterman

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.  Anon.

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

Decaf?  No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine stream.  Anon.

Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.  Star Trek: Voyager

Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago.  Anon.

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something. Josephine Baker

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

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; but on the highest mount in Wales would choose in peace to drink my coffee. Jonathon Swift

Forever:  Time it takes to brew the first pot of coffee in the morning.  Anon

Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. Alexander Pope

I make serious coffee - so strong it wakes up the neighbors.  Anon.

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

I never drink coffee at lunch.  I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.  Ronald Reagan
 
I like my coffee strong, not lethal!  M*A*S*H

I don't have a problem with caffeine.  I have a problem without caffeine!  Anon.

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

Coffee and tobacco are complete repose.  Turkish Proverb

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.  Carly Simon

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.  T.S. Eliot

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

All the coffee in Columbia won't make me a morning person.  Anon

Do I like my coffee black?  There are other colors?  Anon.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.  Paul Erdos

I'll quit coffee.  It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it.  It'll still be the best part of waking up.  From the television show Will and Grace

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

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