Coffee Houses Quotes

“Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.”
― Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses

“When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies”
― Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses

“He opened his laptop and showed me a picture of a “cozy” Greenwich Village apartment he’d found online. My dad, a born New Yorker, had told me stories of the Village, a lively network of cobblestone streets and jazz dives, coffee houses and folk clubs with no cover fee—and I felt a surge of light-headed ambition. “Though it’s kind of strange,” Justin continued, “there is no bathroom inside. Our toilet would be down a public hallway.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir