Burgundy Quotes

• There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

  Isak Dinesen

  Wine, Way, Recognition

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.100, Vintage

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• Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Silly, Food, Wine

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• If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

  Moliere

  Kings, Queens, Wine

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• Every season has its lipstick trend, and just because your perfect color is a pinky beige, that doesn't mean you can't wear deep burgundy.

  Bobbi Brown

  Mean, Color, Perfect

  "Insiders' Guide: How To Find The Best Lip Color" by Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. October 20, 2008.

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• Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Wine, Soul, Typical

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• I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.

  Julia Child

  White, Bottles, Mouths

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• I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!

  Will Ferrell

  Anchorman, Mean, Looks

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• It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

  James Thurber

  Food, Wine, Thinking

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 1937

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• If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

  Jay McInerney

  Flower, Water, Cost

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• I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Pinot Noir, Fans, Passionate

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• Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

  Will Ferrell

  Anchorman, War, Believe

  "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again.

  David Koechner

  Anchorman, Mother, Nice

  "Fictional character: Champ Kind". "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.

  Eva Mendes

  Anchorman, Character, Wind

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• The color palette grew as the story progressed. The 1920's sharecroppers were muted and neutrals, the 30's and 40's introduced burgundy to the neutral palette. The 1950's introduced green, black and denim blue, the 1960's introduced orange and heavier more saturated color, the 1970's introduced more primaries, and the fashion palette became more recognizable as a contemporary one from there.

  Ruth E. Carter

  Fashion, Blue, Color

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• The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Men, Sight

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.159, OUP Oxford

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• It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

  Joan of Arc

  Kings, Cities, Paris

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• The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Air, Color

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Wine, Alcohol

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• This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

  Lil Wayne

  Black, Brain, Ems

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• I'm a big fan of the Adidas three-stripe old-school zip-up tracksuit tops. I've got several for everyday wear, including an olive-green one, a burgundy one and a cream one with leather arms.

  Jonas Armstrong

  School, Stripes, Everyday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

  Joe Bastianich

  Thinking, Bottles, Firsts

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• The best advice I can give people when they buy Burgundy, which is a bit of a roulette game, is to look for producers who are tried and true... Look for the name of the producer, whether Michel Lafarge, Domaine Leflaivre, Dominique Lafont, or another. When they put their name on the bottle, they're proud.

  Daniel Johnnes

  Wine, Games, Names

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• I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Color, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

  Edna Ferber

  Garden, Green, Weapons

  Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.

  John Ciardi

  Food, Wine, Agency

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