35 Inspiring Coffee Quotes

Coffee lovers and enthusiasts know that a simple cup of coffee can bring a moment of peace, a boost of energy, and a dash of inspiration to any day. Whether you're savoring a quiet morning brew or catching up with friends over an afternoon latte, coffee often accompanies memorable and meaningful moments in our lives. In this blog post, we've curated a collection of 35 inspiring coffee quotes that capture the essence, warmth, and richness of this beloved beverage. Let these quotes stir your spirit, spark your creativity, and remind you why coffee holds a special place in the hearts of so many around the world.

1. “Sure some medical experts say coffee could be a health hazard, but they obviously never built a web site before!” - Geoff Blake

2. “Somehow, the Good Lord don't want to see no man start a cold morning with just black coffee.” - Robert Newton Peck

3. “Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.” - Terry Pratchett

4. “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

5. “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

6. “Bob poured and brought two cups over, hardly rattling them on the saucers. "Drink up. This should restore your inner bitch." Bailey scowled at him. "See?" he said. "It's working already, and all you've had is fumes.” - Mark All

7. “Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an illusion of belonging and meeting its customers' desire for connections in form, maybe, but surely not in substance. Once I came to this conclusion, I started to dig deeper into the company's other promises--great working conditions, musical discovery, fair treatment of farmer, and concern for the environment. Every time I went excavating, the stories turned out to be more complex, more heavily edited, and more ambiguous than I had first thought. Each time, it became clear that Starbucks fulfilled its many promises only in the thinnest, most transitory of ways and that people's desires went largely unfulfilled.” - Bryant Simon

8. “This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army on the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensign to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of wit start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.” - Honoré de Balzac

9. “Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?” - Justina Chen Headley

10. “Wait!"What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup.You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee."Cup coffee?"Taste it."What? Are you the coffee police or something?” - Justina Chen Headley

11. “It's over," Keelie said.Too bad. But I want you to know, I will always love you."She narrowed her eyes and said, "When you look at me and say that, are you thinking of Dolly Parton or Whitney Houston?"Burt Reynolds," he said.She nearly spit out her coffee when she laughed, then she said, "That almost makes me want to try again.” - Becky Cochrane

12. “Mercy," he mumbled. "What the hell did you do to my French Roast?” - Patricia Briggs

13. “Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.” - Roman Payne

14. “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.” - Louisa May Alcott

15. “Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop” - Thomas Pynchon

16. “Coffee first. Schemes later.” - Leanna Renee Hieber

17. “I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one side ..."(Englishman in New York)” - Sting

18. “Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way."It's three thirty in the morning.""Okay. Want coffee?” - Darynda Jones

19. “I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.” - Alastair Reynolds

20. “Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.” - David Lynch

21. “For more than three decades, coffee has captured my imagination because it is a beverage about individuals as well as community. A Rwandan farmer. Eighty roast masters at six Starbucks plants on two continents. Thousands of baristas in 54 countries. Like a symphony, coffee's power rests in the hands of a few individuals who orchestrate its appeal. So much can go wrong during the journey from soil to cup that when everything goes right, it is nothing short of brilliant! After all, coffee doesn't lie. It can't. Every sip is proof of the artistry -- technical as well as human -- that went into its creation.” - Howard Schultz

22. “Denn eine Sache ist, daß der Kaffee gut ist, eine andere, daß man sich das nicht ohne weiteres als selbstverständlich anmerken lassen darf.” - Karin Boye

23. “There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...” - Orson Welles

24. “Whoever had opened that first Starbucks in Seattle should be shot.” - Virna DePaul

25. “I decline the coffee. I don't drink it, because no matter how much sugar I put into it, it still tastes like ass-water to me. Maybe it's because my taste buds are so desensitized to sweet that anything not comprised of at least ninety percent sugar tastes wrong” - Katja Millay

26. “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. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.” - John Green

27. “The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.” - Isra

28. “Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

29. “The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.” - Chris Kyle

30. “The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.” - Helen Bevington

31. “I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to dispense with spices in cooking.” - Kevin Sinnott

32. “I'm a coffee expert. I'm not a medical expert, but I play one on TV. - on Oprah Winfrey interview” - Kevin Sinnott

33. “I never said I liked coffee better than sex. I said I'd had it more.” - Kevin Sinnott

34. “The only time I drink milk is when I drink coffee. I make love the same way—contributing 2% as I just sort of lay there.
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

35. “After getting dressed at warp speed, I actually managed to drive all the way to high school before I realized I'd forgotten my morning coffee. Mystery, intrigue, and naked dreams aside, that didn't bode well for my chances at making it through the morning without killing myself. Or someone else.” - Jennifer Lynn Barnes