Wine famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?
-- A Fine Frenzy -
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 -
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.
-- Aaron Hill -
This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge -
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.
-- Abraham Coles -
Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
-- Abraham Cowley -
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 -
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.
-- Adam Smith -
The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.
-- Aeschylus -
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
-- Aesop Rock -
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
-- Aimee Bender -
The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
-- Aimee Bender -
The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.
-- Alain Ducasse -
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
-- Alan Kay -
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
-- Alan Rickman -
I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.
-- Alarmel Valli -
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
-- Alcaeus -
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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 -
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time
-- Alec Waugh -
Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'
-- Aleister Crowley -
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
-- Alexander Fleming -
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
-- Alexander Fleming -
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
-- Alexander Pope -
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane...
-- Alexander Pushkin -
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.
-- Alexander Smith -
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.
-- Alexis Lichine -
A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.
-- Alexis Lichine -
The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking
-- Alexis Lichine -
Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.
-- Alexis Sanchez -
The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.
-- Alison Sweeney -
Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really. It's culture in a glass.
-- Allison Glock -
It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.
-- Alpana Singh -
When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on...Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?
-- Alpana Singh -
If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.
-- Alton Brown -
Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.
-- Alton Brown -
Ive always loved my red wine, and when Im not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so its one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
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 -
Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!
-- Ambrose Bierce -
WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
-- Amy Lowell -
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
-- Amy Smart -
It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?
-- Amy Winehouse -
Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.
-- Anacreon -
My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.
-- Anacreon -
Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.
-- Anacreon -
Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.
-- Anais Nin -
To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.
-- Andre Maurois -
A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
-- Andre Simon -
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
-- Andre Simon -
Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.
-- Andre Simon -
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
-- Andre Tchelistcheff -
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting,
-- Andrea Illy -
Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.
-- Andrew Boorde -
Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.
-- Andrew Sharp -
Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day
-- Angelo Pellegrini -
We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way,
-- Ann Druyan -
A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
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 -
Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.
-- Anna Faris -
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.
-- Anna Quindlen -
The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large, it’s the other way around! We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident – or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see.
-- Anne Michaels -
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.
-- Anthony Burgess -
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Yeah Jesus could turn water in to wine, but he didn't share. Douche.
-- Anthony Langston -
Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You.
-- Anthony Mary Claret -
In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.
-- Antonio Banderas -
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 -
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
-- Aristophanes -
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
-- Aristophanes -
Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.
-- Aristophanes -
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
-- Aristophanes -
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.
-- Aristotle -
You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.
-- Arlene Dahl -
I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.
-- Art Buchwald -
When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it
-- Art Buchwald -
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 -
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
...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 -
It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.
-- Ashley Jensen
