Coffee is truly the elixir of life. There are a lot of different wants to take your coffee, but these coffee quotes prove just how well-loved it is.
Whether you’re a Starbucks regular or brew your own coffee at home or like to try something new every time, this list of quotes about coffee is funny, inspirational, and all around shows the power of coffee.
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54 Coffee Quotes
1. “If it wasn’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.” — David Letterman
2. “Coffee is a way of stealing time which should by rights belong to your older self.” — Terry Pratchett
3. “I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.” — Terri Guillemets
4. “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
5. “Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.” — Jessi Lane Adams
6. “What do you want?… Just Coffee. Black – like my soul.” — Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
7. “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” — T.S. Eliot
8. “As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
9. “Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.” ― David Lynch
10. “I like coffee exceedingly…” ― H.P. Lovecraft
11. “Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes.” ― Ankita Singhal
12. “I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.” ― Lewis Black
13. “To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.” ― Hugh Jackman
14. “I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.” ― Clark Gable
15. “Don’t ever let anyone tell you that fairy tales aren’t real. I drink a potion made from magic beans every day, and it brings me back to life.” ― Nanea Hoffman
16. “I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.” ― Louisa May Alcott
17. “They said I could be anything, so I decided to be caffeinated.” ― Lizzie Chantree
18. “Given enough coffee, I could rule the world.” ― Terry Pratchett
19. “What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.” ― Henry Rollins
20. “I like my coffee like I like myself: strong, sweet, and too hot for you.” ― Jac Vanek
21. “Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.” ― Justina Chen
22. “The second cup of coffee is never as good as the first.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
23. “Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.” ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
24. “I love that there’s such a rivalry. It’s like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know?” ― Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means
25. “Consuming caffeine gives us a taste of insanity.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
26. “Deja Brew: The feeling that you’ve had this coffee before.” ― Unknown
27. “Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.” ― Fran Drescher
28. “I’m going to start measuring the complexity of coding tasks in coffee cups. ‘This was a five-espresso algorithm.'” ― Unknown
29. “Caffeine—it maintains my sunny personality.” ― Unknown
30. “Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?” ― Jean Kerr
31. “When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” ― Helen Hayes
32. “The most dangerous drinking game is seeing how long I can go without coffee.” ― Unknown
33. “I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn’t write.” ― Jonathon Ames
34. “My birthstone is a coffee bean.” ― Unknown
35. “Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.” ― Jonathon Swift
36. “I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.” ― Flash Rosenberg
37. “Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “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
39. “Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.” ― Stephanie Piro
40. “Caffeine is a euphemism for ‘Anxiety wrapped in increased alertness’.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
41. “According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’.” ― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
42. “Coffee is not my cup of tea.” ― Samuel Goldwyn
43. “No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for ‘Before Coffee.'” ― Cherise Sinclair
44. “Today’s good mood is sponsored by coffee.” ― Unknown
45. “Nothing says coffee like six in the morning.” ― Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
46. “May your coffee kick in before reality does.” ― Unknown
47. “Coffee is the great incentivizer in the office.” ― Michael Scott, The Office
48. “Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today’s tasks.” ― Holly Black
49. “Life happens, coffee helps.” ― Unknown
50. “I can’t stop drinking the coffee. I stop drinking the coffee, I stop doing the standing, and the walking, and the words-putting-into-sentences doing.” ― Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
51. “A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.” ― Marcia Carrington
52. “I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.” ― Carly Simon
53. “I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover.” ― Sandra Bullock
54. “I can’t write this without coffee, it keeps my soul young and ambitious.” ― Omer Demir
