Wine Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints.

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.

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

I like to keep things simple. It's really about the wine, food and the beach view. Nothing can beat that.

I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now

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.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

Life is good, but Wine is better.

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

Wine is like beer except different.

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

Hardly did it appear, than from my mouth it passed into my heart.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

Wine gives strength to weary men.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.