Wine Quotes

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.

Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

If the wine is not good, then throw it out!

Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

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.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

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.

I absolutely love Italian food. So pizza - like a margherita pizza, penne arbiota, a glass of wine. That's like my dream.

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

You've forgotten those June nights at the Riviera...the night I drank Champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have been more but you were wearing inner soles.

The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.

At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

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.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.

If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.