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.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Ai Weiwei

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

Ai Weiwei

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Audre Lorde

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Mike Maddux

We accomplished a lot. That's the luxury of throwing on the side. You can get things done.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Audre Lorde

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

Audre Lorde

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

Alex Comfort

A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

Antonio Machado

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

Donna Summer

I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

Alison Bechdel

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Don DeLillo

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Claes Oldenburg

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

Anthony Burgess

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.