Wine Quotes

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

The Gamma paused. “You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?” “You can think of a better place to stash him?” “What about the wine?

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat meat.

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

I was out once and had wine and I got sick to my stomach, and I vowed I would never drink again.

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

Wine is only sweet to happy men.

Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

Buying wine is a political act.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.