Wine Quotes - Page 37

• 'You're Dionysus,' I said. 'The god of wine.' Mr. D rolled his eyes. 'What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say "Well duh!"?' 'Y-yes, Mr. D.' 'Then, "Well, duh!" Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?' 'You're a god.' 'Yes, child.' 'A god. You.'

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Eye, Thinking

  "The Lightning Thief". Book by Rick Riordan, July 1, 2005.

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• Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Farewell To Arms, Forget, Said

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.92, Hamilton Books

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• Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

  Carson McCullers

  Stupid, Mean, Acceptance

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

  Rick Riordan

  Horse, Bottles, Next

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• It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Bottles, Kind, Flavour

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• In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Sleep, Trying

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Flower, Fall

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• Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Drinking, Reading, Ideas

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Heart, Fire

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.154, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wife, Juice, Poppies

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• It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was)

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Wanted, Knows

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1993). “Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.

  Steven Morrissey

  Girl, Fun, Night

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• Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early." -Ranger

  Janet Evanovich

  Night, Glasses, Nuts

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Lean Mean Thirteen”, p.183, Macmillan

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• If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

  Sarah Vowell

  Spring, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Sep 05, 2015

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• Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Cute, Age

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• The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

  Aimee Bender

  Glasses, Red, Empty

  Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.28, Anchor

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• And, whoa!" He turned to Mr.D. "Your the wine dude? No way!" Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. "The wine dude?" "Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine!" "My figurine." "In my game, Mythomagic. And holofoil card, too! And even though you've only got like five hundred attack points and everybody thinks your the lamest god card, I totally think your powers are sweet!" "Ah." Mr.D seemed truly perplexed, which probably saved my life. "Well, that's...gratifying.

  Rick Riordan

  Sweet, Eye, Thinking

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• As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Drunk, Black, Doubt

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• I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Giving, Trust Me

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• I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Complicated, Truth Is, Minutes

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.95, St. Martin's Press

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• There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Play, Three

  Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.114

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• It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Nice, People

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, Son, Giving

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