Wine Quotes - Page 5

• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

  Thomas More

  Friendship, Flower, Age Love

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• Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Holes

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• It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

  Heraclitus

  Book, Ignorance, Beer

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• I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

  John Cleese

  Differences, Vineyards, Guests

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• What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

  Isak Dinesen

  Men, Thinking, Machines

  Seven Gothic Tales "The Dreamers" (1934)

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• When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

  George Saintsbury

  Book, People, Intellectual

  George Saintsbury (2008). “Notes on a Cellar-Book”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Regret, Sleep, Glasses

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• Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

  Ben Jonson

  Romantic, Food, Eye

  "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).

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• We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Eye, Godly

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.226

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• The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking

  Alexis Lichine

  Drinking, Vineyards, Way

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• Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

  Homer

  Tired, Men, Red Wine

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• My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Water, Genius

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• A little saint best fits a little shrine,
  A little prop best fits a little vine,
  As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Saint, Vines, Shrines

  'A Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly sent to a Lady'

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• A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.

  Michael Broadbent

  Sight, Years, Labels

  Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

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• A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

  William Shakespeare

  Hot, Cups, Wine And Friends

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 2, sc. 1, l. [52]

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• Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

  Samuel Pepys

  God, Drinking, Leaving

  Diary 26 January (1662)

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• And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Lasts, Chickens, Champagne

  'Six Town Eclogues' (1747) 'The Lover' l. 25

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• Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.
  Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,
  Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,
  Creations and destroyings, all at once
  Pour into the wide hollows of my brain,
  And deify me, as if some blithe wine
  Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,
  And so become immortal.

  John Keats

  Agony, Names, Voice

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.307, e-artnow

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• "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

  Charles Dickens

  Voice, Broken, Salmon

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.63

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• An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lips, Connoisseur, Collision

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.40, University of Georgia Press

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• Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.

  Julian Barnes

  Blessing, Global Warming, Curse

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• What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.

  Frank J. Prial

  Southern Italy, Tea, Insane

  "WINE TALK; Beaujolais Presents Its Nobler Profile" by Frank J. Prial, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2000.

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• My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

  Alan Rickman

  Definitions, Might, Different

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• The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

  Joseph Haydn

  Drinking, Relatives And Friends, Criminals

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• My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

  Sean Connery

  Girl, Drinking, Listening

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