10 Brilliant Quotes About Coffee

Whether it’s a French press, a velvety cappuccino or an iced latte on a hot summer day, if you have a love for coffee, there’s a good chance that it’s a fierce love. An all consuming love. An “I can’t picture my life without you” love.

The fierce relationship between coffee and coffee-lover is nothing new, though. And is there a better way to honour this relationship than to write about it? If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die after all.

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

“I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover.” – Sandra Bullock

“I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.” – Clark Gable

“This morning, with her, having coffee.” – Johny Cash, when asked of his description of paradise

“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

“Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis — a good hot cup of coffee.” — Alexander King

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T.S. Eliot

“I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.” – Flas Rosenberg

“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

“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.” – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Forget love, fall in coffee if I say so myself!

Coffee-addicted (as always),

F.