Champagne Quotes

• Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Drinking, Wine, Extras

  "Household Words: A Weekly Journal".

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Drinking, Wine

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Silly, Food, Wine

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• Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.

  Hester Browne

  Wine, Special, Bottles

  Hester Browne (2009). “The Finishing Touches”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

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• So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Thinking, Paris

  Anita Loos (1925). “"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”

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• I never touch it. Not directly, anyway. I always use a glass.

  Anistatia R. Miller

  Glasses, Use

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• I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bad Ass, Drunk, Alcohol

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• Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wine, Victory, Needs

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Competition, Acting

  "Best Actress 2016: who are the Oscar nominees?". Article by Brie Larson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 29, 2016.

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• As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

  Bobby Sherman

  Wine, Meals, Cocktails

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• For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

  Lawrence Welk

  Trying, Sound, Bottles

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• On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Pittsburgh, Hospitality

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.

  Michael Zaslow

  Light, Ran, Left

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• My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Regret, Food, Wine

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• I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

  Elaine Dundy

  Hate, World, Next

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.39, New York Review of Books

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• The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

  Ben Bradlee

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

  Oscar Wilde

  Champagne Drinking, Drinking Champagne, Bachelors

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.2

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• I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Taken, Eye, Two

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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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, Wine

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• Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Two, Bottles, Body

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• I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Drinking, Wine, Winning

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• When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

  Method Man

  Kids, Hands, Balls

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• One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Orchestra, Shampoo

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Wine, Tea

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