Quotes about wine
wine noise
Ye Gads, no! I couldn't stand the noise. W. C. Fields
wine water literature
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter. Virginia Woolf
wine desire add
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice. Walter Raleigh
wine sunset rome
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance. W. Somerset Maugham
wine yellow black
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish... Vincent Van Gogh
wine color atmosphere
Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well. Vincent Van Gogh
wine tongue lips
Language is wine upon the lips. Virginia Woolf
wine giving water
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine. Virginia Woolf
wine water best-wine
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. William Blake
wine drunk savour
Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about. William Blake
wine years essence
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time. Samuel Lover
wine secret taste
Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead Salvador Dali
wine secret taste
The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets Salvador Dali
wine secret plus
Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets Salvador Dali
wine numbers red
If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse. Salma Hayek
wine grew grapes
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape Ralph Waldo Emerson
wine character artist
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wine weather giving
Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares Ralph Waldo Emerson
wine age get-better
You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age. Lennox Lewis
wine men serious
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame. Thomas Aquinas
wine names bottles
If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork Thom Yorke
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 serious drink
He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret. Samuel Johnson
wine people intellectual
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper. Samuel Johnson
wine men giving
Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives. Samuel Johnson
wine evil giving
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. Samuel Johnson
wine numbers glasses
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? Samuel Johnson
wine want meals
I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine! Saffron Burrows