170 Drinking Coffee Quotes

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Famous Drinking Coffee Quotes

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Without coffee something’s missing — Al Pacino

Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food. — Maria Parloa

Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going. — Joan Benoit

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

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

Coffee, It's the life blood that fuels the dreams of champions! — Mike Ditka

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

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting. — Andrea Illy

Black coffee must be strong and very hot; if strong coffee does not agree with you, do not drink black coffee. And if you do not drink black coffee, do not drink any coffee at all. — Andre Simon

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy. — Carrie Brownstein

As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing.... Just drink it black, the way God does — Klay Thompson

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption. — Robert Nelson

Wake up and smell the coffee. - Ann Landers

Wake up and smell the coffee. — Ann Landers

Short Drinking Coffee Quotes

  • Coffee better be halfway decent for us, because if not, I am dying young. — Will Bulsiewicz
  • I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless. — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. — Richard Brautigan
  • A cup of coffee commits one to 40 years of friendship. — Turkish Proverbs
  • Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! — Johann Sebastian Bach
  • If your eyes hurt after you drink coffee, you have to take the spoon out of the cup. — Norm Crosby
  • It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world. — Zooey Deschanel
  • Given enough coffee I could rule the world — Terry Pratchett
  • I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. — David Lynch
  • When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break. — Stephen Hawking
Drinking coffee quote Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Cup Of Coffee Quotes

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. — Rick Warren

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? - Albert Camus

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? — Albert Camus

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more. — Jayne Mansfield

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. - Dorothy Day

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. — Dorothy Day

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. - Mae West

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. — Mae West

Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day was linked with a longer lifespan and lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared with avoiding coffee. 27% lower all-cause mortality - ground coffee, 11% lower all-cause mortality - instant, 14% lower all-cause mortality - decaf. — Rhonda Patrick

Drinking coffee quote Trust me, You can dance.
Trust me, You can dance.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you. — William E. Gladstone

I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don't know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I'm chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that. — Nicole Polizzi

What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino. — Robin Williams

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

Drinking Tea Quotes

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. - Anton Chekhov

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. — Anton Chekhov

If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away. — Neem Karoli Baba

Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it. — Ashley Judd

Drinking coffee quote Draw your troubles with coffee.
Draw your troubles with coffee.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957. — Tom Holt

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea! — Wei Wu Wei

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it. — Winston Churchill

I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea. - Ned Kelly

I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea. — Ned Kelly

I would always drink iced teas and lemonades and sodas while filming. Now it's only water and coffee. — Joe Gatto

Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea. — Wei Wu Wei

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. — Ann Patchett

Coffee And Tea Quotes

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth. - Alexander Pushkin

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth. — Alexander Pushkin

I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them. — Andrea Gibson

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Drinking coffee quote Live in the sunshine. Swim the sea. Drink the wild air.
Live in the sunshine. Swim the sea. Drink the wild air.

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place. — Kenneth Grahame

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices. — Pearl Cleage

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. — Wilkie Collins

Drinking coffee quote Give a man a bottle of wine, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to make wine, he'll always have lots o
Give a man a bottle of wine, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to make wine, he'll always have lots of friends

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety. — Lorrie Moore

For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual. — Thomas De Quincey

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea. — Gary Snyder

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. — Sydney Smith

Coffee Cup Quotes

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. — Virginia Woolf

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. - Dave Barry

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. — Dave Barry

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

Drinking coffee quote I drink to make other people more interesting
I drink to make other people more interesting

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

The only time I’ll use a microwave is to warm up a cup of coffee I’ve left too long before drinking. — Mary Berry

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee. — Howard Schultz

Drinking coffee quote In wine, there's truth.
In wine, there's truth.

Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino...Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. — Denis Leary

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee. — Jonathan Carroll

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil? — Anthony Trollope

I Love Coffee Quotes

Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it out so we never regret it, I could forgive the past-but I never forget it. — Ghostface Killah

We went to Austria to train and it was so peaceful. And I love coffee and the coffee was great. — Alex Morgan

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village. — Joe Manganiello

Drinking coffee quote Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you’ but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I’ll have a cup of coffee. — Robert D. Hare

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else. — Hoda Kotb

Drinking coffee quote An empty coffee cup is full of hope...
An empty coffee cup is full of hope...

I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening. — Julie Roberts

When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,'and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had. — Fred Armisen

Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music. — Dave Grohl

After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said -- The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love. And somehow I'm still alive. — Carole Maso

Good Coffee Quotes

TRUE WEALTH - Worriless sleeping, Clear conscience, Reciprocal gratitude, Absence of envy, Muscle strength, Frequent laughs, No meals alone, No gym classes, Good digestive functions, No meeting rooms, Periodic surprises, Foamy coffee, Crusty bread, Ability to nap, Access to a hammock — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When I fast, I don't drink coffee—at least for the first five days. Sometimes, as a treat, on days 5-7 of those longer fasts, I'll drink a black coffee... Truthfully, I think I do it just to break up the boredom. A black coffee has never tasted so good as it does on day 5 of a water-only fast. — Peter Attia

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. — Hunter S. Thompson

Drinking coffee quote Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Investors who leave their cryptocurrency in the custody of an exchange are like people who invest in Starbucks even though they don't drink their coffee. They might make good technical money, but their actual understanding of use cases and value propositions is questionable. — Nick Szabo

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better. — Justina Chen

Only one thing is certian about coffee.... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation. — Mark Pendergrast

Drinking coffee quote When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup. — Richard Gehman

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management. — Michelle Williams

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

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.

Need Coffee Quotes

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke

You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things. — Jamie Tworkowski

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

I need a coffee to go with my coffee. — Zooey Deschanel

If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee. — Shelley Long

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary. — Mike Dirnt

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. — Tim Vine

Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat. — Mike Myers

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need. — Thomas Haden Church

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

Black Coffee Quotes

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee. — Aaron Levie

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. — Proverbs

You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth glass of cornershop piss at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think...This is fantastic. I'm in heaven. — Dylan Moran

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes. — Jack Ketchum

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles. — Charles Bukowski

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. — Pearl Cleage

What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul. — Cassandra Clare

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

I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon. — Nick Offerman

I go "I just want a cup of black coffee." She goes "Do you want to try a biscotti? They're from Italy and they're considered a delicacy." Have you ever eaten one of these things? It tastes like a burned cookie. Where I'm from, that's considered a mistake. — Bill Engvall

Coffee Love Quotes

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much — Frank O'Hara

She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. — David Nicholls

There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere. — Sophia Loren

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass. — Tom T. Hall

I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life. — Tristan Prettyman

A handsome young guy is stretching his arms and waking up. He is just about to reach for his coffee and is now being wished good morning by me. Have a lovely day ahead. — John Styles

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there. — Sayings

I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it. — Curtis Stone

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section. — Kenneth Rexroth

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York. — Mary Schmich

Coffee Quotes

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee. — Gerard Way

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction. — Mahmoud Darwish

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. - Johann Sebastian Bach

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. — Johann Sebastian Bach

The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso. - Ernesto Illy

The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso. — Ernesto Illy

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

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

Imma go to Starbucks in the morning for some coffee, if it ain't no girls there i won't buy no damn coffee! — Lil B

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

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

The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee. — Edna Lewis

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war. — Frederick the Great

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

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More Drinking Coffee Quotes

Coffee is real good when you drink 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

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. — Jonathan Swift

The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don't see why other women shouldn't do the same. — Sayings

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe. — Anton du Beke

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank. — James Mackintosh

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

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. — Sydney Smith

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth. — Jules Michelet

It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer. — Frederick the Great

That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't. — J. D. Salinger

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York. — Sting

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. — Megan Mullally

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way. — Shirley Maclaine

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home. — George Clooney

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought. — John Harvey Kellogg

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer. — Frederick the Great

Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run. — Joan Benoit

Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery. — William Cobbett

The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know. — P. J. O'Rourke

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army — Honore de Balzac

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. — Nhat Hanh

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