Wine Quotes - Page 20

• The only award I've been nominated for is a Scottish BAFTA. A Scottish BAFTA, it's like hearing that the animals have their own Olympics. You hear all this stuff about TV being faked. Of course it's faked. It's all faked. That documentary a couple of weeks ago about tribal warfare among monkeys, that was all filmed in a Yates wine lodge in Dundee. Comic Relief is faked. Everybody in Africa is fine.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Country, Humor

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, December 6, 2009.

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• Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

  "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

  Fergie

  Father, Thinking, Alcohol

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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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, Beer, White

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• The audience I have in mind is always me and my friends. And my two sisters. We're the feminists in my life - and we are also mothers and daughters and hot and neurotic and existing on wine and coffee and disappointed and brave.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Mother, Daughter, Coffee

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Thinking, Glasses, Should

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.

  Donna Air

  Fun, Believe, Chocolate

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Depends on the evening. A good red wine is nice in cold weather. A Claret or a Rioja. I've got a good gin we make from damson plums. And you can't beat a glass of champagne every now and again.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Nice, Glasses, Weather

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Friendship's the wine of life.

  Edward Young

  Friendship, Real, Real Friends

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.38

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• There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

  Robert B. Parker

  Substitutes, Palate, Tasting

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• There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

  Robert B. Parker

  Art, Memories, Able

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• If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wise, Lying, Thinking

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• When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

  Richard Burton

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  "Bottled Wisdom: Over 1,000 Spirited Quotations & Anecdotes" by Mark Pollman, Wildstone Media, (p. 146), January 1, 1998.

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• Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

  Lord Byron

  Cups

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1969, Delphi Classics

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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

  Soldier, Vineyards, Woods

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

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• Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
  And fires us
  With courage, love and joy.
  Women and wine should life employ.
  Is there ought else on earth desirous?

  John Gay

  Life, Courage, Fire

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 1, air 19

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• Come quickly, I'm drinking stars.

  Dom Perignon

  Stars, Drinking

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• I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

  Voltaire

  French Wine, My Friends

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• Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.

  Robert Mondavi

  Art, Skills, Fine

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• The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

  Voltaire

  People, Champagne, Brilliance

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• Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.

  Robert Mondavi

  Civilization, Culture, Heritage

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• I know of no one who has been more helpful to the industry. His teachings and consultations internationally, without doubt, improved the quality of winemaking in our country. He was a friend to everyone interested in fine wine.

  Robert Mondavi

  Country, Teaching, Doubt

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• Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

  Anthony Powell

  Food, Two, Cooking

  'The Acceptance World' (1955) ch. 4

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• A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

  Bob Marley

  Alcohol, Doe, Littles

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