Coffee quotes

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” in Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). Wikisource scan of the 1917 Egoist edition, page 12 of the poem

To early coffee-stands.

T. S. Eliot, “Preludes,” in Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). Wikisource scan of the 1917 Egoist edition, Preludes II

Coffee, (which makes the politician wise,
And see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes)

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto III, in The Works of Alexander Pope (1717). Wikisource scan of the 1717 Works, Canto III

The couplet is the poem’s joke. CoffeeInc is not saying that coffee makes anyone wise.

From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide,
And China's earth receives the smoking tyde.

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto III, in The Works of Alexander Pope (1717). Wikisource scan of the 1717 Works, the coffee service in Canto III

Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht,
Und höret, was ietzund geschicht:

Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander), “Über den Caffe,” in Picanders Ernst-Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte, part 3. Johann Theodor Boetius, Leipzig. J. S. Bach later set this libretto as Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211 (1732). German Wikisource, Picander’s 1732 poems, page 564

CoffeeInc paraphrase, not a quotation: Be quiet, stop chatting, and hear what is happening now.

Ey! wie schmeckt der Coffe süsse,
Lieblicher als tausend Küsse,
Milder als Muscaten-Wein.
Coffe, Coffe muß ich haben;
Und wenn iemand mich will laben,
Ach so schenckt mir Coffe ein.

Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander), “Über den Caffe,” Lieschen’s aria, in Picanders Ernst-Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte, part 3 (1732). German Wikisource, Picander’s 1732 poems, page 565

CoffeeInc paraphrase, not a quotation: Lieschen sings that coffee tastes sweet, lovelier than a thousand kisses and milder than muscatel wine, and asks to be poured a cup.

Nur lasset mir den Coffe da.

Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander), “Über den Caffe,” Lieschen to Schlendrian, in Picanders Ernst-Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte, part 3 (1732). German Wikisource, Picander’s 1732 poems, page 566

CoffeeInc paraphrase, not a quotation: Only leave the coffee there for me.

Beaucoup de gens accordent au café le pouvoir de donner de l’esprit ; mais tout le monde a pu vérifier que les ennuyeux ennuient bien davantage après en avoir pris.

Honoré de Balzac, Traité des excitants modernes, “Du café,” in Œuvres complètes, tome 20 (Paris: Michel Lévy) (1870). French Wikisource, Lévy Œuvres complètes, tome 20 (1870), the “Du café” section

CoffeeInc paraphrase, not a quotation: Balzac writes that many people credit coffee with supplying wit, and that bores are more boring after they have had some.

The sentence is from the 1870 Lévy printing of the treatise transcribed on Wikisource. CoffeeInc did not check an 1838 or 1839 printing word for word, so that earlier date is not given as the year of this wording.

Le café concassé à la turque a plus de saveur que le café moulu dans un moulin.

Honoré de Balzac, Traité des excitants modernes, “Du café,” in Œuvres complètes, tome 20 (Paris: Michel Lévy) (1870). French Wikisource, Lévy Œuvres complètes, tome 20 (1870)

CoffeeInc paraphrase, not a quotation: He writes that coffee broken in the Turkish way has more flavor than coffee ground in a mill.

I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 10 (Monday, 12 March 1711), in Henry Morley’s edition of 1891 (1711). Project Gutenberg eBook 9334, The Spectator, Volume 1

my Coffee comes into my Chamber every Morning without asking for it

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 12 (Wednesday, 14 March 1711), in Henry Morley’s edition of 1891 (1711). Project Gutenberg eBook 9334, The Spectator, Volume 1

The clause sits in a longer sentence about a landlady who does not speak to the narrator. The wording and capitals are Morley’s 1891 reprint of the 1711 paper.

He and I in the evening to the Coffee House in Cornhill, the first time that ever I was there, and I found much pleasure in it, through the diversity of company and discourse.

Samuel Pepys, Diary, 10 December 1660, in the Wheatley edition (Mynors Bright’s transcription) (1660). Project Gutenberg eBook 4125, Diary of Samuel Pepys, complete 1660

The mistress of the house should always be certain that the coffee be excellent; the master that his liquors be of the first quality.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du goût (the author dates his writing 1825), Aphorism XIX, in Fayette Robinson’s English translation, The Physiology of Taste; or, Transcendental Gastronomy (1825). Project Gutenberg eBook 5434, Robinson’s translation

The English wording is Robinson’s translation. The year is the year Brillat-Savarin gives in that text for his own writing, not a separate year printed for the translation.

A mere decoction of green coffee is a most insipid drink, but carbonization develops the aroma and forms an oil which is the peculiarity of the coffee we drink, and which would have been eternally unknown but for the intervention of heat.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du goût, “Origin of Coffee,” in Fayette Robinson’s English translation, The Physiology of Taste (1825). Project Gutenberg eBook 5434, Robinson’s translation

This is Brillat-Savarin’s description of roasting, in Robinson’s English. It is not a CoffeeInc statement about a coffee for sale.

I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, chapter 2, The Carpet-Bag, 1851 US edition (1851). Wikisource scan of the 1851 US edition, chapter 2