Coffeeology

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Quotes

Café de Cuba’s personal favourite: 
“Behind every successful woman…..is a substantial amount of coffee.”
Stephanie Piro (1996)

“As black as the Devil, as hot as Hell, as pure as an angel, as sweet as love.”
Talleyrand 1812

“Coffee is balm to the heart and the spirit.”
Giuseppe Verdi (1820-1869)

“I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.”
Reputedly by Ronald Reagan (1980’s)

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
T.S. Eliot
“ The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” (1917)

“ If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.”
Nancy Astor, House of Commons member to her nemesis, Winston Churchill:
 “And if I were your husband I would drink it.”
Winston Churchill

“A woman may divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with daily quota of coffee.”
Turkish Law 1453

The drink that comforteth the brain and heart and helpeth digestion.”
Sir Francis Bacon

“The very next thing I’d like to do is smell a cup of coffee.”
Commander Bill McArthur
April 5 2006, on the eve of returning to Earth after six months aboard the International Space Station

“One cup of coffee is worth forty years of friendship”
Old Turkish Saying

“Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.”
Alphonse Allais
French writer and humorist (1854-1905)