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21 Quotes Only Die-Hard Coffee Lovers Can Appreciate

21 Quotes Only Die-Hard Coffee Lovers Can Appreciate

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments)

Coffee mornings Good Things

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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Coffee compliments

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Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.

— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In search for The Great Perhaps

Coffee mornings Life Happiness

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I don't really like coffee, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

— Brian Andreas, Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

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Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

— Justina Chen, North of Beautiful

Coffee Adventure Consistency

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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, Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder

Coffee Daily Routines Appreciate little things tea

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It doesn't matter where you're from—or how you feel... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.

— Gabriel Bá, Daytripper

Coffee Homesick Peace

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Coffee first. Schemes later.

— Leanna Renee Hieber, Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul

Coffee Scheming

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Coffee and chocolate—the inventor of mocha should be sainted.

— Cherise Sinclair, Hour of the Lion

Coffee chocolate Mocha

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Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

— Matt Healy, Matt Healy–Hollywood Life

Coffee boys cry

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A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.

— Marcia Carrington, National Coffee Day

Coffee Morning Nerves

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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., The Professor at the Breakfast Table

Coffee tea Exhilaration

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I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

— Abigail Reynolds, Pemberley by the Sea

Coffee Literature Optimism

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There are three intolerable things in life—cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

— Orson Welles, 20,000 Quips & Quotes

Coffee champagne Intolerable Women Life

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Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm.

— Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Quotes

Coffee Hell angel devil Love sweet

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The philosopher Sir James Mackintosh had said that the powers of a man's mind were proportionate to the quantity of coffee he drank, and Voltaire had knocked back fifty cups of it a day, so Ianto reckoned there had to be something in it. And saving Cardiff from the kinds of things that came through the Rift called for quick, inspired thinking, so Ianto took it upon himself to make sure the coffee was good. Ianto Jones, saving the world with a dark roast.

— Phil Ford, Torchwood: The Dead Line

Coffee Inspired Thinking Roast Powers

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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, 15 Glorious Quotes About Your Favorite Drink: Coffee — Smart Coffee for Regular Joes

Coffee Basic Need humanity

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But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

— David Letterman, National Coffee Day

Coffee Personality

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He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot — a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals.

— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines

Coffee Energy Sophisticated Intellectual

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What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.

— Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

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