Wine Quotes - Page 10

• Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Counselor, Firm

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• I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Bored, So Bored, Good Wine

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 1, 1845.

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• I am falser than vows made in wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Vineyards, Drink, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

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• By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Food, Cooking

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• The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Kind, Drink, Pleasant

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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, Thinking

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Serious, Drink, Claret

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• Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day

  Angelo Pellegrini

  Lust, Palate, Young

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• Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sweet, Vinegar, Good Nature

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Night, Soul, Depth

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• Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.

  Andrew Boorde

  Heart, Men, Comfort

  Andrew Boorde (1936). “The wisdom of Andrew Boorde”

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• Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

  Henry Fielding

  Alcohol, Enemy, Firsts

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• I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

  Omar Khayyam

  Half, Stuff, Wonder

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.221, University of Virginia Press

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• Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

  Walter Scott

  Needs, Red, Welcome

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• The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

  Adam Smith

  Country, People, Sobriety

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.439, Harriman House Limited

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• By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

  Alec Waugh

  Today, Kind, Compare

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• I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Bottles, Good Company

  Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only to be admired passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when it functions well in tandem with a menu.

  Gerald Asher

  Real, Awards, Purpose

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• There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.

  Thomas Conklin

  Feelings, Contentment, Spirit

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• I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'

  Gerald Asher

  Play, Two, Drawing

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• They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

  Ernest Dowson

  Long, Rose

  "Vitae Summa Brevis" l. 5 (1896)

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• Wine gives strength to weary men.

  Homer

  Men, Giving, Weary

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• Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Birthday, Turning 50, Champagne Drinking

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• There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.347, Bantam Classics

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• Drink wine, not labels.

  Maynard Amerine

  Labels, Drink

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