Quotes about wine
wine today kind
By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank. Alec Waugh
wine dinner walnuts
After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine. Alfred Lord Tennyson
wine passion men
Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.
wine cures sherry
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. Alexander Fleming
wine people vineyards
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
wine chains wit
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. Alcaeus
wine men holes
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
wine knives apples
It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop) Aldous Huxley
wine opportunity men
To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, "The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam," you'd say, "Okay, that's kind of conceivable." If you're talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that. Adam Richman
wine mistress vain
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... Alexander Pushkin
wine insulting bottles
Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative. A. J. Liebling
wine mean thinking
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life. Adam Gopnik
wine rose temples
Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile. Abraham Cowley
wine sun taught
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? Cyril Connolly
wine fine fine-wine
Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine. Cornelia Funke
wine writing iron
If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music. Colin Meloy
wine looks upstairs
Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money. David Letterman
wine alcohol thrill
I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you? Cole Porter
wine water gold
There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold. Coleman Young
wine writing bullshit
Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come. Clement Freud
wine thinking able
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them. Clement Attlee
wine play acting
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. William Shakespeare
wine gambling dice
Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.
wine son men
A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
wine cups hot
A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.
wine mind mirth
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
wine giving bacchus
Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.
wine sunset air
This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again. Anna Akhmatova
wine glasses sitting
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair. Amanda Pays
wine bottles cigar
There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it. D. L. Hughley
wine blood names
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Clifton Fadiman
wine agents
Wine is a civilizing agent.
wine rivers vineyards
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.