Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pliny the Elder

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

Pliny the Elder

In wine, there's truth.

Jim Lehrer

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

Elaine Stritch

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

Jimmy Fallon

Earlier this week Donald Trump gave an interview with CNN at a winery he owns in Virginia. It turns out Trump's winery makes two different kinds of wine: white wine and not-white wine.

John Burroughs

If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.

Joe Bastianich

My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.

Joe Bastianich

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.

Joe Bastianich

The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

Joe Bastianich

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

Lisa Kleypas

I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since...

Lee Trevino

The older I get, the better I used to be.

Lewis Carroll

The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.

Lewis Carroll

'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.

Leonard Bernstein

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Peter Ustinov

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Peter James

Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'I read a while ago,' he told Branson, 'that the French drink more red wine than the English but live longer. The Japanese eat more fish than the English but drink less wine and live longer. The Germans eat more red meat than the English, and drink more beer and they live longer too. You know the moral of this story? 'No' 'It's not what you eat or drink - it's speaking English that kills you.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

Rachel Cusk

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

Madame de Stael

Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.

Haruki Murakami

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Han Suyin

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.

Gustav Mahler

A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!

Gustave Flaubert

Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.

Grant Wood

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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."

John Masefield

Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

John Lyly

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

John Lyly

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

John Lyly

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

John Leo

Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own an espresso maker and read magazines such as Architectural Digest and Food & Wine.

Joseph Hall

The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.