Top 40 Coffee Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Without coffee something’s missing.”

— Al Pacino

2. “Given enough coffee I could rule the world.”

— Terry Pratchett

3. “When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Cassandra Clare

5. “I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.”

— Clark Gable

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6. “Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”

— Justina Chen

7. “What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.”

— Henry Rollins

8. “I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.”

— J.D. Salinger

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9. “Wake up and smell the coffee.”

— Ann Landers

10. “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”

— Earl Wilson

11. “To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one’s fling from time to time, smoke one’s pipe, and drink one’s coffee in peace.”

— Vincent van Gogh

12. “Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.”

— Matt Berninger

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13. “When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.”

— Honoré de Balzac

14. “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

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15. “I drink too much coffee.”

— Julianna Margulies

16. “I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent.”

— Anna Kendrick

17. “Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?”

— Steven Wright

18. “Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”

— Terry Pratchett

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19. “The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.”

— James Mackintosh

20. “Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee’s for closers only.”

— David Mamet

21. “Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

— Nora Roberts

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22. “I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.”

— Carly Simon

23. “Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren’t prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.”

— Stephen King

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24. “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”

— Albert Camus

25. “I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.”

— Charles Bukowski

26. “I don’t like people who drink decaf coffee it’s like what. Why you drinking it? Like it taste so good? That’s like drinking non alcoholic vodka.”

— Chelsea Handler

27. “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

28. “Cocaine is like really evil coffee.”

— Courtney Love

29. “The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.”

— Charles Dickens

30. “That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.”

— J.D. Salinger

31. “Emotions are contagious. We’ve all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.”

— Daniel Goleman

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32. “In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.”

— Lana Del Rey

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33. “Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night’s pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?”

— Edward Abbey

34. “A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.”

— Ernest Hemingway

35. “I love the morning time – a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that’s probably my favorite time.”

— Sara Bareilles

36. “I must always have fresh orange juice, alkaline water and hazelnut creamer for my coffee.”

— Vivica Fox

37. “I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.”

— Hugo Weaving

38. “People don’t think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

39. “She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s fresh cup of coffee.”

— Libba Bray

40. “A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more.”

— Jayne Mansfield