Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Charles Dickens

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

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

Alan Rickman

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

David Denby

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

Bryan Ferry

I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label,

Cesare Pavese

Don't mix wine and women.

William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

Dave Foley

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Dave Barry

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Dave Barry

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

Benicio Del Toro

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Elizabeth Pena

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

Carolyn Murphy

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

Kurt Vonnegut

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

Shilpa Shetty

Chocolate is maybe my only vice. In particular, Godiva's champagne truffles. Or Dean & Deluca vanilla cupcakes. Just thinking about them - oh my gosh!

Annie Jacobsen

The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.

Don Shula

We didn't have any champagne to toast each other. But we did have some Diet Cokes up there. We lifted the Diet Cokes.

Robin Leach

There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too.

Antoine Deneriaz

I was so sure I could do it that I had already ordered the champagne yesterday. I was really convinced I could do it today.

Jim Laughlin

For something to be officially and legally categorized as Champagne, it must come from the Champagne region in France. It's a legally designated region just a little northeast of Paris. Anything we make in America, or anything made in Italy or any other country, is sparkling wine.

Ken Ramsey

I have a ticket for Sunday but I'm not going home, I'm going to party. It's going to be a champagne and roses party!

Ben Curtis

I blindfolded my girlfriend at night and led her into the woods, where I had a blanket, rose petals, champagne and candles. I played a song I wrote for her, and the rest of the night turned out great.