White Wine Quotes

• Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

  Bette Davis

  Mean, Wine, White

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• As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Strong, Food, Wine

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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

  James Joyce

  Wine, White, Looks

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• The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

  William Shenstone

  Wine, Power, White

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.124

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• Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

  John Webster

  Wine, Soldier, Vineyards

  'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2

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• Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

  John Masefield

  Sweet, Home, Wine

  'Cargoes' (1903)

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• Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

  Karen MacNeil

  Wine, White, Red

  Karen MacNeil (2015). “The Wine Bible”, p.227, Workman Publishing

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• Earlier this week Donald Trump gave an interview with CNN at a winery he owns in Virginia. It turns out Trump's winery makes two different kinds of wine: white wine and not-white wine.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Wine, Virginia, Two

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• I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.

  Lars von Trier

  Wine, School, White

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• I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

  Oliver Reed

  Drinking, Wine, White

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• Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.

  Cate Marvin

  Real, Wine, Beer

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

  Nick Hornby

  Wine, White, Very Good

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• Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

  Julia Child

  Wine, White, Beef

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• To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Wine, Air, Rome

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.58, Random House

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• I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

  Jim Himes

  Wine, Beer, Oysters

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• For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.

  Richard Avedon

  Children, Wine, Night

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• The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

  Henri Murger

  Wine, White, Red

  Henri Murger (1899). “Bohemian Life”

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• Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

  David Denby

  Wine, Class, White

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• My favorite to cook is this recipe I've been making since I was 12 years old with my mom, and it's an angel hair shrimp pasta with tomatoes, feta, garlic, white wine - it's so easy but so fresh and so delicious!

  Devon Windsor

  Mom, Wine, Angel

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

  Charlie Trotter

  Wine, White, People

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• Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wine, Oysters, White

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All about Sherlock Holmes”, p.177, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white.

  Kevin Zraly

  Wine, White, Pinot Noir

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• Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Halloween, Wine, White

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• Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

  Jon Stewart

  Wine, White, Great Day

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• Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

  Bette Davis

  Hate, Fall, Wine

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