Famous coffee quotes

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Thought a miserable winter's night was as good a time as any to start a thread on famous coffee quotes, and why not begin with probably the most famous one of all, attributed to Charles Maurice de Tallyrand [of French, if you'll excuse the pun  extraction]:

1. Coffee: "Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love" Tallyrand

DoubleRistretto

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems" - Albert Einstein

C-man

"Who knows, who cares, just give me my coffee before I die!" famous quote by C-man when he was 20yo waking up with a hangover

Brett H

Ah! how sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, smoother than muscatel wine. Coffee, I must have coffee and if anyone wants to give me a treat, ah!, just give me some coffee! Big Daddy Bach (Coffee Cantata)

Seeya Latte

"I know coffee" (Al Pacino, Di Bella)

lars

wasn't the al Pacino thing for a different brand??

Brett H

on 1371945958:

wasn't the al Pacino thing for a different brand??

Yes, Vittoria.  I read that as referencing both sources with the quote. 

Seeya Latte

Both right I have to chuckle every time I see the ads... Funny seeing them go at each other

DoubleRistretto

on 1371945958:

wasn't the al Pacino thing for a different brand??

"I know cardboard" Al Pacino  8)

Intense Coffee

"Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation" ~Author Unknown

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ambradambra

Here's one - from the film 'You've Got Mail'. Tom Hanks begins with "The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is ..." bit long though. For full quote go to  my post called 'She came, she tasted, she disapproved' on my blog 'The Good the Bad and the Italian'.

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"Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised." ~ Star Trek: Voyager

lars

'Coffee falls into the stomach

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This must be one of the most famous ones: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." ~ T.S. Eliot

C-man

Espresso Love she gets the sun in the daytime perfume in the dusk and she comes out in the night time with the honeysuckle musk because she smells just like a rose and she tastes just like a peach she got me walking where the wildlife goes I'd do anything to reach her and she was made in heaven heaven's in the world is this just espresso love you know i'm crazy for the girl she call me just to talk she's my lover, she's a friend of mine she says hey mister you wanna take a walk in the wild west end sometime and i get trouble with my breathing she says boys don't know anything but i know what i want i want everything well i feel so good cos i feel so good and i feel so good cos it feels so right i was made to go with my girl like a saxophone was made to go with the night and she can raise one eyebrow put her hand on my hip and i close one eye now sweat on her lip and i surrender to the fever she love me so tender i got to believe her love? espresso love's alright i don't want no sugar in it thank you very much all wired up on it all fired up on it espresso touch hey maestro espresso it's just another one just like the other one hey maestro espresso is this another one just like the other one Dire Straights

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"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 Bonaparte

Beanz

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.  ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674

C-man

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Without my morning coffee I

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a suitably 'royal' one for today (anyone who's spent a bit of time in Germany probably won't disagree  "You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee" - Edward VII

GaryatGala

Off topic because I did not copy any famous quotes, so I made my own up. "Man does not live on bread alone, so he has coffee instead."

AndyStaples

"Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation" ~Author Unknown

Perfect!  :D