Quotes about wine
wine my-favorite
My favorite wines are Zinfandels. Thomas Keller
wine fruit drink
I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them. Thomas Keller
wine honest being-honest
I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest. Thomas Keller
wine prudent pharmacist
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably. Thomas Campion
wine waiting tonight
I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm ... Thomas Bailey Aldrich
wine men water
God made the water but men made the wine. Victor Hugo
wine sheep lions
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes. Victor Hugo
wine glasses water
One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water. Victor Hugo
wine glasses guy
I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass. Roger Federer
wine imperfection
Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate. Sam Neill
wine home lunch
I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight. Sally Quinn
wine night judgement
He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement. Saadi
wine intelligent men
Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do! Rumi
wine heart soul
Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work. Rumi
wine kissing night
Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation. Rumi
wine age get-better
Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time. Steve Jordan
wine numbers names
Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering. Stephen Potter
wine italian hell
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. Peter Ustinov
wine beer grace
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. Peter James
wine reality suffering
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. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
wine thinking fake
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. Rachel Cusk
wine cake ideas
I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me. Ted Allen
wine world sorcery
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wine glasses people
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. Lesley Garrett
wine spite desirable
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! Lawrence Durrell
wine water taste
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. Lawrence Durrell
wine glasses paris
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro. Lawrence Durrell
wine drunk magic
Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk. Susanna Clarke
wine possibility pleasure
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility. Soren Kierkegaard
wine humble glasses
If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way. Soren Kierkegaard
wine possibility
Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility Soren Kierkegaard
wine bouquets enjoy
Enjoying the bouquet while resisting the wine." -Edward Stephenie Meyer
wine men giving
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine. Ralph Waldo Emerson