Wine Quotes - Page 36

• Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.

  Rumi

  Kissing, Night, Long

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• As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this wine. With a skinfull of this, Sir, would you rush out to commit economics?

  Rumi

  Jobs, Unemployment, Economics

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Kissing, Play, Rainbow

  Eugene O'Neill, Donald Clifford Gallup (1980). “Poems, 1912-1944”, Ticknor & Fields, 1980

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• Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Glasses, America

  Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium

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• Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Possibility

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• The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Glasses, Catholic, Church

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• It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Bird, Heaven

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Yellow, Desire

  "Season of Mists (The Sandman #21: Prologue)". Book by Neil Gaiman, December 1990 – July 1991.

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• Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)

  Joanne Harris

  Tree, Joy, Bud

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• It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mourning, Drains, Sipping

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• I never drink... wine.

  Bela Lugosi

  Drink

  "Fictional character: Count Dracula". "Dracula", 1931.

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• With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drunk, Virtue, You Choose

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• With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode God near, he sang, it was our last ride over the hurdled humans. They cowered when they heard us overhead, they wrote, they lied our neighing into one of their image-ridden languages.

  Paul Celan

  Snow, Lasts, Language

  Paul. Celan (2011). “Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan”, p.5, Wesleyan University Press

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• I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

  Lynn Kurland

  Irony, Fine, Connoisseur

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• She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

  Mary Balogh

  Sorry, Tomorrow, Ifs

  Mary Balogh (2003). “Slightly Wicked”, p.41, Dell

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• Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Laughter, Memories

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• The sun has blessed you," Sarita used to say. "Look how he has left his kisses on your face for all to see and be jealous." "The sun loves you more," I said, rubbing my hands over her dry arms, the color of an aged wine gourd, and she laughed. But this is not India and we are not prized for our freckles here. The sun is not allowed to show his love.

  Libba Bray

  Blessed, Love You, Jealous

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• Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Pigs, Doors

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• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lonely, Kings, Stars

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Wrinkles

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• Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.

  Eoin Colfer

  Running, Queens, Wife

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• The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sweet, Poison, Use

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• But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

  Caroline Knapp

  Glasses, Light, Safety

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.39, Dial Press

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• Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, People, Enemy

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.240, Routledge

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• Lesbian?” Payton turned around and saw J.D. standing there. Maybe it was the wine. Maybe she was basking in the glow of their successful pitch to Gibson’s. Maybe it was her promise to Laney to be the “New Payton,” or maybe it was a combination of all those things. But Payton actually found herself smiling at J.D. It’s just an excuse, the lesbian thing,” she said.

  Julie James

  Successful, Promise, Saws

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