Brilliant Coffee Quotes



"Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy" - Craig Parker (Haldir in the Lord Of The Rings movies)

"I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears." - Hugo Weaving, Actor ('The Matrix', 'Lord Of The Rings')

"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks" - Sir James Mackintosh

"Decaffeinated Coffee. It's useless warm brown water." Heard on David Letterman

"Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!" -"Coffee Cantata" -J.S. Bach

"Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring." U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849

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

"Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too." D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia.

"Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. - Talleyrand

Coffee has two virtues. It is wet and it is warm. - Old Dutch saying.

"Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility." - Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

"Coffee is real good when you drink it it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup. " Gertrude Stein

"Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip." - Pope Leo XII

"A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time." - Leonhard Rauwolf

"The little campfires, rapidly increasing to hundreds in number, would shoot up along the hills and plains, and as if by magic, acres of territory would be illuminous with them. Soon they would be surrounded by the soldiers, who made it an inevitable rule to cook their coffee first." John D. Bilings

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

"Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure." Napoleon Bonaparte

"I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless." Napoleon Bonaparte

"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

"If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage." Sydney Smith

"Wine is for aging, not coffee." Ken Hutchinson, Starsky and Hutch

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

"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 it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed." Mark Twain

"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.

"Make my coffee like I like my men: hot, black, and strong." - Willona Wood, Good Times

"Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake in the afternoon." - Jilly Cooper

"Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul." - Isak Dinesen

"Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery." - Joan Frank, 1991

"Many people are like instant coffee: the minute they get in hot water they dissolve."

"The discovery of coffee has enlarged the realm of illusion and given more promise to hope." Isidore Bourdon

"If it wasn't for coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all." David Letterman

"You make good coffee . . . You're a slob, but you make good coffee." Cher, in Moonstruck

"See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor." Anthony Quinn

"Why don't you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I'm a little low in sugar and I don't have any cream, but it's real coffee." Barbara Streisand

"I never laugh until I've had my coffee." Clark Gable

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

"The first cup is for the guest, the second for enjoyment, the third for the sword." An old Arabic saying.

"People are kind of like zombies in Hong Kong nowadays. You don't see that glow anymore. In terms of colour Hong Kong looks a bit grey. To counter that, I think we should give out free espresso samples to give people more caffeine; triple espresso with Irish cream syrup, iced! People just need to get a bit more wired." David Wu

"Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee!" - David Letterman

"If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee." - Sydney Smith, 1771-1845

"Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." - Turkish Proverb

"Nescafé es no café" - Juan Valdez