Coffee Quotes

 

"If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee." -- Nancy Astor to Winston Churchill
"And if I were your husband, I would drink it." -- Winston Churchill

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;

if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

~Abraham Lincoln

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.

A cup of coffee (real coffee) home-browned, home-ground, homemade, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly 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

Coffee should be black as Hell,

strong as death,

and sweet as love.

-Turkish proverb

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. after a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar -very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the` East.

Gustave Flaubert

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

~Claudia Roden

Among the numerous luxuries of the table, unknown to our Forefathers, coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. Its taste is very agreeable, and its flavor uncommonly so; but its principle excellence depends on its salubrity, and on its exhilarating quality. It excites cheerfulness, without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. It diffuses over the whole frame a glow of health,

and sense of ease and well-being which is extremely delightful: existence is felt to be a positive enjoyment, and the mental powers are awakened and rendered uncommonly active.

~Benjamin Thompson

The best maxim I know in life, is to drink your coffee when you can, and when you cannot, be easy without it.   Jonathan Swift
 
A cup of coffee detracts nothing from your intellect; on the contrary your stomach is freed by it and no longer distresses your brain; it will not hamper your mind with troubles but give freedom to its working. Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood without causing excessive heat; the organ of thought receives form 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. -Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
 
It has its bad points, people say,

"it's addictive, it makes you crave."

But I respect that, and love it too,

it gives my edge an attitude.

There is one thought that keeps me up,

the thought of having my first cup.

Lots of coffee, make it strong.

I drink it strong the whole day long.

If the horseshoe sinks, then drink it. - Plains recipe for coffee.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk. - Christopher Fry, British playwright “New York Post” ( 29 Nov. 1962).

After a few months' acquaintance with European "coffee," one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed. - Mark Twain “A Tramp Abroad” (1880).

Decaffeinated coffee? Kinda like kissing your sister. - Bob Irwin

If you'll excuse me a minute, I'm going to have a cup of coffee. - broadcast from Apollo 11's LEM, "Eagle", to Johnson Space Center, Houston July 20, 1969.

Coffee, (which makes the politician wise,

and see through all things with his half-shut eyes)

Sent up in vapors to the Baron’s brain

New stratagems, the radiant lock to gain.

- Alexander Pope, “The Universal Prayer

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,

And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

~T.S. Eliot "The Wasteland"

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course. --Harper Lee

Some people drink coffee to [get ideas in a hurry], or smoke cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They don't know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are. --Brenda Ueland

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

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

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. --John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"The best maxim I know in life, is to drink your coffee when you can, and when you cannot, be easy without it."

--Jonathan Swift

And my favorite bumpersticker: "Death Before Dishonor - Nothing Before Coffee

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, humour columnist, Miami Herald

This Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall cheat Satan by baptizing it. -unknown 16th century

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move...similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

-Honoré de Balzac (1799-1859)

In a word, coffee is the drunkard's settle-brain, the fool's pastime, who admires it for being the production of Asia, and is ravished with delight when he hears the berries grow in the deserts of Arabia, but would not give a farthing for a hogshead of it, if it were to be had on Hampstead Heath or Banstead-Downs.

-Thomas Tryon (1634-1703), The Good Hous-Wife Made a Doctor (1692)

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