Stephen Fry Quotes About Wine

Quotes about: Wine

• Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Mean

• It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Useless Things

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.298, Soho Press

• Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

  Stephen Fry

  Teacher, Book, Wine

• Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

  Stephen Fry

  Coffee, Book, Reading

• That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine" Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. "Very nice," said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. "I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle." "It's cheap, that's the main thing.

  Stephen Fry

  Nice, Wine, Cat

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.97, Soho Press

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