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Need a little pick-me-up? These coffee quotes will give you a boost and help you enjoy your next cup even more.
The coffee scene is thriving right now and there’s no doubt it brings people together. Whether we’re on the go or relaxing in our favorite cafe, a good cup of java is a great way to get started or keep going!
So grab a cup and enjoy these coffee quotes to celebrate its place in culture and daily life.
Top 10 Coffee Quotes
Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.
Thomas Jefferson
Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.
Terri Guillemets
I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.
Clark Gable
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
Alphonse Allais
I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.
Harry Mahtar
Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.
Catherynne M. Valente
Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.
David Lynch
Never trust anyone who doesn’t drink coffee.
A.J. Lee
Quotes about Coffee
What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
Henry Rollins
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.
Fran Drescher
I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
I think the key to the start of any good relationship is to remember how the other person likes their coffee.
J. Lynn,
Wait for You
I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
Howard Schultz
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.
Coffee doesn’t need a menu, it needs a cup. That’s all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup — that’s it.
Denis Leary
Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today’s tasks.
Holly Black, Ironside
It’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee.
Donna A. Favors
To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
Hugh Jackman
Coffee connects us in so many ways – to each other, to our senses, and to the earth that supports the coffee trees.
Rohan Marley
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J.D. Salinger
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?
Anthony Trollope,
The Warden
I’d never met coffee that wasn’t wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.
Laurell K. Hamilton
I don’t know how people live without coffee, I really don’t.
Martha Quinn
The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
Sir James Mackintosh
As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?
Cassandra Clare,
City of Ashes
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
Terry Pratchett
A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.
Marcia Carrington
Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.
Claudia Roden
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Jonathan Swift
I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.
Abigail Reynolds
It’s when you look over the top of your coffee cup, that you can smile at life.
Anthony T. Hincks
You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
Adam Gopnik
Espresso is to Italy what champagne is to France.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
Howard Schultz
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don’t trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
John Cusack
Adventure in life is good… consistency in coffee even better.
Justina Headley
When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.
Honore de Balzac
Coffee. Creative lighter fluid.
Floyd Maxwell
I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.
Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
Earl Wilson
Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Turkish Proverb
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
Peter Diamonde
Humor and Coffee
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
Ronald Reagan
If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all.
Dacid Letterman
Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Charles J. Sykes
No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for ‘Before Coffee.’
Cherise Sinclair,
Master of the Mountain
Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of goat.
Johann Sebastian Bach
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
I like instant gratification. It’s like instant coffee, only it won’t keep you up at night.
Jarod Kintz
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.
Lewis Black
My couch is coffee-colored. I can thank Starbucks and clumsiness for that.
Jarod Kintz
We want to do a lot of stuff. We’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.
Jerry Seinfeld
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
Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.
Stephanie Piro
I like my coffee like I like myself: strong, sweet, and too hot for you.
Jac Vanek
I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.
Flash Rosenberg
Why, yes, I could start my day without coffee. But I like being able to remember things like how to say words and put on pants.
Nanea Hoffman
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Alfred Renyi
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Edward Abbey
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
Steven Wright
Decaf coffee only works if you throw it at people.
Unknown
Life’s too short for bad coffee.
Gord Downie
Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.
Bob Irwin
We hope these coffee quotes gave you a boost and a newfound appreciation for java.
No matter where you enjoy the bean scene, we hope you appreciate your next cup a little more.
