Wine Quotes - Page 13

• Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

  Benjamin Franklin

  Bakers, Pudding, Spares

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.42, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• His element is so fine
  Being sharpened by his death,
  To drink from the wine-breath
  While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

  William Butler Yeats

  Elements, Drink, Palate

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.118

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• Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

  John Masefield

  Ballads (1903) "Captain Stratton's Fancy"

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• Souls of poets dead and gone,
  What Elysium have ye known,
  Happy field or mossy cavern,
  Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
  Have ye tippled drink more fine
  Than mine host's Canary wine?

  John Keats

  Mermaid, Soul, Elysium

  'Lines on the Mermaid Tavern' (1820)

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• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

  Kingsley Amis

  Strong, Writing, Glasses

  "Toast of the town" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.

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• He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Intellectual, Dinner

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• There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

  Jane Austen

  Climate, Want, Kingdoms

  Jane Austen (1848). “Northanger Abbey: A Novel”, p.47

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• Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Drinking, Eating, Parts Of Life

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• The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

  Jodi Picoult

  Water, Lord, Stores

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Wine makes all things possible.

  George R. R. Martin

  Great Wine, Best Wine, All Things

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• A bottle of wine was good company.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bottles, Good Company, Sun Also Rises

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Vineyards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.329, Harvard University Press

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• Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

  Maya Angelou

  4th Of July, Brain, Independence

  Maya Angelou (2013). “Mom & Me & Mom”, p.77, Random House

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• It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Drunk, Wish

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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, Oysters

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

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• Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Drinking, Men

  "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".

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• Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

  Guy de Maupassant

  Kings, Champagne

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• The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

  George Herbert

  Doe, Bottles, Quench

  "Jacula Prudentum" by George Herbert, 1651.

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• The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

  Salvador Dali

  Secret, Doe, Taste

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• Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Coffee, Glasses, Indulge In

  "Jennifer Aniston's Beauty Advice: 'Stop Eating S**t'". UK Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

  Edward Fitzgerald

  Book, Jugs, Paradise

  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 4th ed., st. 11 (1879).

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• Wine is a civilizing agent.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Agents

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drink, Virtue

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• A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Drinking, Food, Men

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.373, Lulu.com

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• I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

  Diogenes

  Drunk, Cost, Vineyards

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