Wine Quotes - Page 21

• Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

  Edward Young

  Friendship, Strong, Lost Friend

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.135

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• Some folks of cider make a rout
  And cider's well enough no doubt
  When better liquors fail;
  But wine, that's richer, better still,
  Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will)
  Must yield to nappy ale

  John Gay

  Beer, Yield, Doubt

  John Gay (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.102

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• A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

  John Eldredge

  Suicide, Strong, Cutting

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.171, Harper Collins

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• Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

  Francis Bacon

  Powerful, Passion, Fuel

  "Temperance Essays And Selections From Different Authors". Book edited by Edward C. Delavan, 1865.

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• Wine always inspires sociability.

  Robert Mondavi

  Inspire, Sociability

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wine to me is all about sharing.

  Robert Mondavi

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

  William Nicholson

  Drinking, Thinking, Adultery

  William Nicholson (2014). “Motherland: A Novel”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

  Robert Mondavi

  Giving, World, Satisfaction

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• My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

  Hugh Grant

  Dad, Bottles, Used

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• Wine is the divine juice of September.

  Voltaire

  Juice, September, Divine

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• I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

  Robert Mondavi

  Spring, Sunshine, Blessing

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family.

  Stephen White

  Philosophy, Good Food, Good Wine

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• Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

  Jim Morrison

  Dying, Vines

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• The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Suffering, Together, Body

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• Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Vegetables, Half

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• Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

  Robert Mondavi

  Men, Civilized, Has Beens

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• Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

  Robert Mondavi

  Father, Stanford University, Lawyer

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• Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.

  Francis Thompson

  Summer, Fire, Flames

  James M. Byrne, Francis Thompson (2001). “God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

  Lord Byron

  Flavor, Vinegar, Beverages

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 5

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• Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

  Lord Byron

  May, Soda, Mirth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Ale, Bottles

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

  Graham Greene

  Thinking, Blood, Air

  "Monsignor Quixote". Book by Graham Greene, 1982.

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• But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

  Edward Young

  Love, Giving, Madness

  Edward Young (1798). “The Works of Edward Young ...: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.191

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• The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

  Lord Byron

  Sight, Blood, Long

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1252, Delphi Classics

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• The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

  Lord Byron

  Wall, Cities, White

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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