After Dinner Coffee Quotes & Sayings

We must determine where our collective existence will be found: in a museum, or in the stars. — C.C. Conrad

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue. — George R R Martin

Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel. — Dacia Maraini

A gentleman never offends unintentionally — Oscar Wilde

I do this not because I am courageous and honest, but because it is the only way to end the conflict of my deepest soul. — Alan Paton

Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee. — Michael Dirda

I tried to imagine what it would be like if Constantin were my husband.
It would mean getting up at seven and cooking him eggs and bacon and toast and
coffee and dawdling about in my nightgown and curlers after he'd left for work to wash up the dirty plates and make the bed, and then when he came home after a lively, fascinating day he'd expect a big dinner, and I'd spend the evening washing up even more dirty plates till I fell into bed, utterly exhausted. This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself. — Sylvia Plath

During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days gone by, one found disappointment. I was looking for the rich after-dinner coffee that literally curdled cream if anyone was foolish enough to spoil it with cream. — Constance Spry

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East. — Gustave Flaubert

I wish I were brave enough to go after him. Maybe ask him to grab a coffee. Or dinner. Or brunch - wait, do people our age even have brunch? — Elle Kennedy

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it. — Kin Hubbard

I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck. — Cassandra Clare

My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust. — Greg Iles