Good Wine Quotes:

Good wine is good. Great wine is great. More wine is better.

- Ruth Fertel

topic: Wine, Great Wine, Good Wine

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Wine, Culinary, Good Wine, Wine And Life, Cellars

Good wine needs no bush.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, Needs, Good Wine

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, People, Welcome, Wine Making, Good Wine

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Funny, Music, Morning, Sorry Men, Irish Beer

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Wine, Soul, Body, Food And Wine, Witty Wine

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

- Mark Twain

topic: Alcohol, Too Much, Whiskey, Scotch Whisky, Whisky

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Stars, Wine, Discovery, Good Wine, Funny Wine

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

- Michael Broadbent

source: Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Drinking, Wine, Good Company, Vineyards, Best Wine

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Wine, Shining, Bottles, Wine Toast, Good Wine

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Wine, Bored, So Bored, Wine And Age, Good Wine

Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

- James Howell

source: James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

topic: Wine, Men, Blood, Good Thoughts, Food And Wine

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, Used, Familiar, Vineyards, Wine And Friends

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Wine, Men, Giving, Vineyards, Wine And Age

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

- Cardinal Richelieu

topic: Drinking, Wine, Made, Wine Making, Wine Toast

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

- James Howell

source: James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

topic: Wine, Men, Blood, Good Wine, French Wine

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

topic: Food, Wine, Cooking, Good Wine, Funny Wine

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

- Henry Aldrich

source: 'Reasons for Drinking'

topic: Drinking, Wine, Thinking, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'

- Gerald Asher

topic: Wine, Play, Two, Good Wine, Cork

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

topic: Wine, Insulting, Bottles, Good Wine, Superlatives

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

- Yoshida Kenko

source: Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Running, Wine, Writing, Good Wine

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

- George Saintsbury

source: George Saintsbury (2008). “Notes on a Cellar-Book”, p.30, Univ of California Press

topic: Book, Wine, People, Good Wine

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Sympathy, Sleep, Wine, Keynes, Best Wine

Where there is no wine there is no love.

- Euripides

topic: Wine, Old Wine, Fine Wine, Wine And Love, Wine Love

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

- Walter Scott

topic: Wine, Needs, Red, Helmet, Drank

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

- Fiorello H. La Guardia

topic: Wine, Jelly, Lord, Wine Making, Wine Toast

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

- Johannes Tauler

topic: Wine, Foundation, Body, Good Wine

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Wine, Europe, United States, Good Wine

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

- Walter Scott

source: Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.195, e-artnow

topic: Wine, Glasses, Poor, Food And Wine, Good Wine

Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

- Ogden Nash

source: "Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief". "The Old Dog Barks Backwards". Book by Ogden Nash, 1972.

topic: Humorous, Wine, People, Good Wine, Adverts

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

- Hector Hugh Munro

topic: Food, Wine, Men, Asparagus, Being Unhappy

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

- Jack Vance

source: Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean

topic: Adventure, Wine, Opportunity, Good Wine

Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

- George Ellwanger

topic: Wine, Men, Oil, Good Wine

Never did a great man hate good wine.

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Hate, Wine, Men, Good Wine

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

topic: Wine, Glasses, Rewards, Good Wine

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

topic: Women, Wine, Pretty Woman, Good Wine

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

- Vittorio Grigolo

topic: Wine, Thinking, Voice, Good Wine

To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

- William Butler Yeats

source: William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.101, Penguin

topic: Goodbye, Children, Heart, Old Ways, Good Wine

There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

- Karen MacNeil

source: "Wine prices: How much to pay". www.cnn.com.

topic: Wine, Dollars, Bottles, Good Wine

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

- Bobby Sherman

topic: Wine, Meals, Cocktails, Good Wine

You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.

- David Gemmell

topic: Sweet, Laughter, Children, Life Is Sweet, Good Wine

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

- Jerome K. Jerome

topic: Falling In Love, Wine, Play, Good Wine, Influenza

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Wine, Firsts, Knows, Good Wine, Brida

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

topic: Wine, Jugs, Needs, Good Wine

Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Girlfriend, Nice, Wine, Honeymoon, Good Wine

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

- Albert Bushnell Hart

source: Albert Bushnell Hart (1895). “Studies in American Education”, New York : Longmans, Green

topic: Reading, Wine, Would Be, Good Wine

To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.

- Dave Chambers

topic: Art, Memories, Wine, Lasting Impressions, Good Wine

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

- Gene Perret

topic: Marriage, Funny Love, Wine, Great Marriage, Bridal Shower

I am passionate about my family, adventure, good wine, nature and the outdoors, sharks, the ocean, and working hard to preserve it all for future generations.

- Mehgan Heaney-Grier

topic: Ocean, Wine, Adventure, Good Wine

You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.

- Leslie Jones

topic: Wine, Waiting, Bombs, Good Wine, Worth The Wait