10 quotes about coffee from literature

1st of October every year has been designated as International Coffee Day, as decided by the International Coffee Organisation, which describes it as an occasion both to celebrate the drink and “support the millions of farmers whose livelihoods depend on the aromatic crop”

So in this vein, here are some top caffeinated quotes from books as compiled by Guardian UK.

1. I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now. ―

from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

2. Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. ―

from Thud! by Terry Pratchett.

3. I went out the kitchen to make coffee – yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men. ―

from The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

4. For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ―

from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot.

5. She poured the coffee, which was so strong it practically snarled as it came out of the pot, and then sat down herself, taking the small cat on to her knee. ―

from The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks.

6. Good. Coffee is good for you. It’s the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave. ―

from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

7. The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.―

from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

8. ‘Well, one can die after all: it is but dying; and in the next world, thank God! there is no drinking of coffee, and consequently no – waiting for it.’ Sometimes he would rise from his chair, open the door, and cry out with a feeble querulousness – ‘Coffee! coffee!’ ―

from Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas De Quincey

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

from The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.

10. DECEMBER 16. I’m sick for real. Rosario is making me stay in bed. Before she left for work she went out to borrow a thermos from a neighbour and she left me half a litre of coffee. Also four aspirin. I have a fever. I’ve started and finished two poems.

from The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

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