Lawrence Durrell Quotes About Wine

Quotes about: Wine

• The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Hero, Wine, Men

  Lawrence Durrell (1978). “Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra”, Viking Pr

• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Paris, Glasses

• Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Spite, Desirable

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Caesar's Vast Ghost”, p.12, Faber & Faber

• A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Food, Wine, Water

  Lawrence Durrell (1978). “Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra”, Viking Pr

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