Famous Coffee Quotes

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.
Jennifer Lopez

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
David Lynch

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


Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.
Howard Schultz

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
Howard Schultz

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

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

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

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

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

The morning cup of Café Nair is an integral part of the life of a Creole household. The Creoles hold as a physiological fact that this custom contributes to longevity, and point, day after day, to examples of old men and women of fourscore, and over, who attest to the powerful aid they have received through life from a good, fragrant cup of coffee in the early morning.  
The Picayune Creole Cook Book (1901)

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

Nescafé no es café. (Instant coffee is not coffee.)  
Mexican saying

Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Jonathan Swift, 1722