Wine Quotes

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

Wine is a civilizing agent.

Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?

Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

There is no back label with a story on a beer can.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Poetry is devil's wine.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.