Wine Quotes - Page 18

• We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with the non-verbal ability of remembering what they are like, or of appreciating them without being able to say why

  Kent Bach

  Appreciate, Able, Remember

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• The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

  Tim Crane

  Aesthetic, Understood, Tasting

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• Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

  Tim Crane

  Art, Intellectual, Messages

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• Look not thou on beauty's charming;
  Sit thou still when kings are arming;
  Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
  Speak not when the people listens

  Walter Scott

  Kings, People, Looks

  Walter Scott, James Reed (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Psychology Press

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• One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for if I do not, I must think him a beast.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Liars, Lying, Believe

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.104, Oxford University Press

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• Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mean, Play, Excess

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• A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Drinking, Character, Vices

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• Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

  Alfred de Musset

  Men, Intoxicated, Discretion

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• Poetry is the Devil's wine.

  Saint Augustine

  Poetry, Devil, Poetry Is

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• A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Mean, Sunshine

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• Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Hurt, Drinking, Luxury

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• Wine has drowned more than the sea.

  Publilius Syrus

  Sea

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• That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.

  Rachael Ray

  Thinking, Might, Cheese

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• Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Night, Honey, Wormwood

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.626, e-artnow

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• Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Juice, Singers, Saws

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
  In the belly of the grape

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grapes, Grew, Belly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.71, U of Nebraska Press

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• During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

  Glennon Melton

  Drinking, Opportunity, Clothes

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• Gin for executions, beer for birthdays, wine for weddings.

  P.J. Wolfson

  Wedding, Beer, Execution

  "Fictional character: Reagan, the American Reporter". "Mad Love", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

  Ring Lardner, Jr.

  Water, Alcohol, Drink

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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

  Virginia, Two, White

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• Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Heart, Remember, Wells

  Arthur Rimbaud (1961). “Une Saison en Enfer & Le Bateau Ivre”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

  Cyril Connolly

  Sun, Taught, Grapes

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• Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Beer, Poetry Is, Prose

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• If Dracula would be happy there, so will your wine.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Would Be, Ifs

  Jennifer Rosen (2006). “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It”, p.104, Clerisy Press

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• Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?

  Jennifer Rosen

  Fun, My Friends, Ifs

  Jennifer Rosen (2005). “Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration and Education by America's Wittiest Wine Critic”, p.235

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