Herman Melville Quotes About Wine

Quotes about: Wine

• At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

  Herman Melville

  Wine, Sea, Water

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.346, Northwestern University Press

• Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Wine, Foe

  Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.201, 谷月社

• That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Marriage, Wine

• If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

  Herman Melville

  Wine, Luxury, Water

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile”, p.76

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