Throughout the history of coffee, great artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers have gravitated to the coffeehouses. Their creative expression, briefly sampled here, reflects coffee’s gift of inspiration.
(Source: Starbucks Passion for Coffee)
Coffee has inspired and been mentioned in countless plays and lyrics. Coffee inspired musicians during the baroque and classical eras and has influenced broadway as well as all types of popular music. It is recorded that the ultra talented Beethoven made it a habit to have 60 roasted beans for every cup of coffee each day. J.S. Bach even wrote a Coffee Cantata in 1735.
Picasso, Hemingway, Chateaubriand and many artists and writers may have gotten their inspiration while hanging out in Parisian cafes. Pablo Picasso even took the time to sketch a still-life called La Cafetiere (The Coffee Pot) in 1944.
Coffee has a way to improve creativity as you’ll see in these 22 coffee quotes. Enjoy these quotes we’ve found and feel free to share them with your friends and family.
1. Life is too short for bad coffee – Author Unknown
2. No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness – Sheik Abd-Al-Kadir
3. Forever: The time it takes to brew the first pot of coffee in the morning – Author Unknown
4. Nothing will make a father swear before the children quicker than a cup of poor coffee – K. Hubbard
5. Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! – J.S. Bach
6. See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor- Anthony Quinn
7. The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks – Sir James MacKintosh
8. Do I like my coffee black? There are other colors? – Author Unknown
9. Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee – Author Unknown
10.
A fig for partridges and quails
Ye dainties I know nothing of ye;
But on the highest mount in Wales
Would choose in peace in peace to drink my coffee – Jonathan Swift
11. Given enough coffee, I could rule the world – Author Unknown
12. Chocolate, men, coffee – some things are better rich – Author Unknown
13. Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee – Author Unknown
14. I don’t have a problem with caffeine. I have a problem without caffeine – Author Unknown
15. Man does not live by coffee alone. Have a danish – Author Unknown
16. He was my cream, and I was his coffee, and when you poured us together, it was something – Josephine Baker
17. I’m not concerned that coffee will keep me awake all night. I have credit card problems that do that for me – Aaron Bacall
18. 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
19. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
20. As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…smiles arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally, and writing ceases to be a struggle – Honore de Balzac
21. Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep – Fran Drescher
22. 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
What are some of your favorite coffee quotes? Leave a comment below.
