Quotes about wine
wine glasses dust
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!' Arthur Rubinstein
wine glasses gentleman
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
wine men europe
Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations. Edna Ferber
wine vines lasts
I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst. Edna St. Vincent Millay
wine drink used
I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints. Edgar Wright
wine water resolve
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. Benjamin Franklin
wine tolerance vines
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
wine poor-richard
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
wine bakers pudding
Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding
wine darkness fool
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness? Avicenna
wine oysters white
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
wine thinking iron
Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins. Arthur Brisbane
wine drink
I never drink... wine. Bela Lugosi
wine flavor
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor. Anthony Trollope
wine beer bread
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist. Desiderius Erasmus
wine passion smoking
There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar. Demi Moore
wine joy family-and-friends
Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things. Dan Aykroyd
wine despair vinegar
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
wine blood light
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on Charles Bukowski
wine two together
I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
wine views done
I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine. Brian Schmidt
wine writing past
When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television. Antony Beevor
wine collecting enjoy
I enjoy wine collecting and great food. Deep Roy
wine alcohol red
A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up. Denise Richards
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. Charles Caleb Colton
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. Charles Dickens
wine men envy
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
wine voice broken
"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
wine definitions might
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours. Alan Rickman
wine class white
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. David Denby
wine labels ugly
I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label, Bryan Ferry
wine women-and-wine
Don't mix wine and women. Cesare Pavese
wine men fine-wine
Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get. Charlize Theron