Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

Wine is connected to abundance.

Carole Bouquet

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.

C. S. Lewis

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

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."

Brian Eno

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

Brandi Carlile

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.

Alan Parsons

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

William Shakespeare

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Brigitte Bardot

I am against the Islamisation of France.

Brigitte Bardot

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

Bonnie Wright

I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.

Kate Forsyth

One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

Thierry Breton

Next year will be the first year when the number of workers in France will decline, ... We really need them.

Tom Udall

One of the parts of this that I studied over in France when I went over on a governmental exchange, and I studied the whole nuclear waste issue.

Pascal Perrineau

Now people say he's not only unpopular but he's aging, he's irrelevant. It reinforces all of the questions in France about Chirac's leadership.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.

Edmund Burke

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Edmund Burke

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

Edward Ruscha

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

B. F. Skinner

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.