Wine Quotes - Page 6

• Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.

  Randle Cotgrave

  Advice, Bread, Drink

  Randle COTGRAVE (1660). “A Dictionarie of the French and English tongues. Containing also"Briefe directions for such as desire to learne the French tongue."With a plate”, p.730

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• It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology are teaching us how to work with the checks and balances of nature, and encouraging a new, rational, limited-input, environmentally sound means of vineyard management that offers a third way between the ideologically driven approach of Biodynamics and conventional chemical-based agricultural systems.

  Jamie Goode

  Teaching, Mean, Understanding

  Jamie Goode (2005). “The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass”, p.60, Univ of California Press

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• What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

  Plato

  Taken, Character, Men

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• I tasted - careless - then -
  I did not know the Wine
  Came once a World - Did you?
  Oh, had you told me so -
  This Thirst would blister - easier - now

  Emily Dickinson

  World, Easier, Blisters

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

  Kingsley Amis

  Labels, Too Short, Life's Too Short

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• Religions change; beer and wine remain.

  Hervey Allen

  Beer, Religion, Beer And Wine

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Night, Add, Ease

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• Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

  Basil Bunting

  Preparation

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• Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.220

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• White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

  James Joyce

  White, Looks, Red

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• I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.

  Richard Thaler

  Taste, Rating, Ability

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• When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

  Art Buchwald

  Writing, Funny Wine, Doe

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• A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  May, Infinite, Increasing Knowledge

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Tired, Champagne Drinking, Zest

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• Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

  Tina Turner

  Emotional, Champagne Drinking, Laughing

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• I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again.

  Sally Jessy Raphael

  Sweet, Ideas, White

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• The air is like a draught of wine.
  The undertaker cleans his sign,
  The Hull express goes off the line,
  When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.

  Noel Coward

  Air, Hull, Lines

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• Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Giving, Pleasure

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.220

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• Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

  St. Jerome

  Devil, Use, Weapons

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• Poetry is devil's wine.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

  Eric Idle

  Drinking, Bottles, Laying Down

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• To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Glasses, Obscure, Claims

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• Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

  Michael Broadbent

  Food And Wine, Accompanists

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• You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

  Publilius Syrus

  Ivy, Advice, Needs

  Maxim 968,

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