Claret Quotes

• I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wind, Long, Drunk

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

  John Keats

  Happiness, Beautiful, Morning

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.709, e-artnow

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• No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

  James Boswell

  Drinking, Hero, Wine

  James Boswell (2012). “James Boswell's Life of Johnson: Manuscript Edition: |”, p.186, Edinburgh University Press

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• I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass.

  Nick Harkaway

  Wine, Sunshine, Dark

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• How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a peace-maker, and lies as quiet as it did in the grape. Then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee, and the more ethereal part mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments, like a bully looking for his trull, and hurrying from door to door, bouncing against the wainscott, but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently that you do not feel his step.

  John Keats

  Queens, Lying, Wine

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• He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Serious, Drink

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• He talked with more claret than clarity

  Susan Ertz

  Drinking, Dignity, Clarity

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• Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder behind it, it can kill. It is much the same with the word of God. If it is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity- the fire of love of God and neighbor- it will work wonders.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Love, Christian, Fire

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• Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  People, Saint, Lord

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• I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

  John Cleese

  Wine, Differences, Vineyards

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• If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

  Douglas Coupland

  Fog, Car, Opera

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• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Hero

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

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• Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

  Denis Healey

  Glasses, Tea, Mug

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• They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

  Pope Gregory VII

  Love, Justice, Hated

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• I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Saint, Be Kind, Serving Others

  St. Anthony Mary Claret “The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret”, TAN Books

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• When people love and recite the Rosary they find it makes them better.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Christian, People, Rosary

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• Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought for this wretch. Rather they will be satisfied to see him in the flames as a victim of God's justice. ("The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge . . ." Psalm 57:11) They will abhor him. A mother will look from paradise upon her own condemned son without being moved, as though she had never known him.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Mother, Revenge, Son

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• It was the consideration of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, because it is of faith that all those who die in mortal sin are condemned forever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned, for, as their lives have been, so also will their end be.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Fall, Soul, Depth

  "The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret".

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• A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Heart, Son, Men

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• The faith I have when I am in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is so strong that I find it impossible to express what I feel... When the time comes to leave I must force myself to overcome the inclination to prolong my stay with Jesus.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Jesus, Strong, Blessed

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• Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Powerful, Wine, Blood

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• Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Philosophy, Two, Catholic

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• An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Heart, Missionary, Charity

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• When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Brother, Moving, Men

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