Wine Quotes - Page 4

• A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Shining, Bottles, Retrospect

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.473, e-artnow

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• Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weather, Giving, Care

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.36, Everyman's Library

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• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Drinking, Alcohol, Vineyards

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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• Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Vineyards, World, Culinary

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

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• Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

  James Howell

  Men, Blood, Heaven

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pleasure, Champagne, Artificial

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• The wine they drink in Paradise
  They make in Haute Lorraine.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Paradise, Drink, Lorraine

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Cider Song”

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• Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, People, Welcome

  1613 Guildford. Henry VIII, act 1, sc.4, l.6-7.

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• And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Water, Wife, Vineyards

  Flying Inn (1914) ch. 5 "Wine and Water"

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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• Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

  John Keats

  Food, Book, Doors

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• A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

  William Shakespeare

  Son, Men, Laughing

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.417, Bloomsbury Publishing

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  Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

  Stephen Fry

  Teacher, Book, Ink

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• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Flames, Wings

  'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1841) ch. 7 (Dick Swiveller)

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• Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.

  Serena Sutcliffe

  Real, Glasses, People

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• Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

  Ovid

  Heart, Too Much, Wine And Love

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• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Men, Giving

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• One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drinking, Drunk, Matter

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• Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

  Homer

  Wise, Vineyards, Sage

  Homer (2013). “The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus”, p.278, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Civilization, Perfection

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

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• I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

  Pablo Neruda

  Intelligent, Light, Bottles

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Wisdom, Silence

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

  Andre Simon

  Meals, Vineyards, Tables

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• The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

  Omar Khayyam

  Vineyards, Littles, Cups

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• To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Rivers, Vineyards, Mouths

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