Wine Quotes - Page 22

• The king can drink the best of wine -So can I;And has enough when he would dine -So have I;And can not order rain or shine -Nor can I.Then where's the difference - let me see -Betwixt my lord the king and me?

  Charles Mackay

  Kings, Rain, Order

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• None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

  Donald Evans

  Loyalty, Heaven, Charity

  Donald Evans (1919). “Ironica”

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• Miracle woman ... Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness.

  Donald Evans

  Women, Miracle, Mouths

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• Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

  John Wesley

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and part of the eighteenth, numbers of his journal”, p.332

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• Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

  David Brinkley

  Travel, Strong, Home

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• In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.

  George Andrews

  Strong, Science, Technology

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• I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

  Michael Caine

  Red, Drink, Bigs

  "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks “Is Anybody There?”". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

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• I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

  Ridley Scott

  Fall, Mean, Drunk

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.

  Kate Winslet

  Thinking, Ideas, Glasses

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

  Ridley Scott

  Thinking, California, Australia

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

  John Hurt

  Mind, Information, Sometimes

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• There's wisdom in wine.

  Jack Kerouac

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.190, Penguin

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• Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.

  Sam Mendes

  Drinking, Pregnancy, Kids

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

  Adam Rogers

  Beer, Law, People

  "I Went Drinking With the Author of “Proof,” This New Book on the Science of Booze". Interview with Alex Park, www.motherjones.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I like to keep things simple. It's really about the wine, food and the beach view. Nothing can beat that.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Beach, Simple, Views

  "Star TV chef loves a getaway on Spanish island of Ibiza". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 20, 2011.

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• I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

  Brandi Carlile

  Sleep, Air, Breathing

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

  Thomas Campion

  Prudent, Pharmacist, Complaints

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• In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

  Samuel Johnson

  Play, Shakespeare's Plays

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• Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.

  Bob Blumer

  Sex, Drinking, Winning

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• New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.

  Heinz Guderian

  Bottles, Tactics, Weapons

  "Cavalry from Hoof to Track". Book by Roman Jarymowycz, Ch. 16 : Cold Warhorse: Pegasus ex Machina, 2009.

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• Wine transforms moles into eagles.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eagles, Moles

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• I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.

  Jared Huffman

  Marijuana, California Coast, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Beautiful, Kings, Book

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• Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Stars, Two

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• No noble man ever hated good wine.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Noble Man, Hated

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