Great Wine Quotes

• Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

  Robin Leach

  Wine, Weekend, Land

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.290

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• Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wine, Joy, Add

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• A meal without wine is like a day without sun

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wine, Alcohol, Sun

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• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Wine, Glasses, Dust

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• If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Wine, Night

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6387, Delphi Classics

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• I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fall, Wine

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

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• God in his goodness sent the grapes
  To cheer both great and small;
  Little fools will drink too much
  And great fools none at all!

  Walter Scott

  Cheer, Wine, Littles

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• Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

  Isadora Duncan

  Mother, Wine, Oysters

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.1, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Inspire, World

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1301, Delphi Classics

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• Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wine, Joy, Ballet

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• When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

  Ovid

  Wine, Wings, Worry

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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, Wine

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• The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Food, Wine, Juice

  Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”

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• Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Wine, Envy

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

  Ovid

  Courage, Drinking, Passion

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• Language is wine upon the lips.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wine, Tongue, Lips

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• A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

  Louis Pasteur

  Funny, Philosophy, Drinking

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs, 2004.

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• A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Jugs, Bread

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

  Heraclitus

  Book, Wine, Ignorance

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• Wine makes all things possible.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wine, Best Wine, All Things

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• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Excellence

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

  Louis Pasteur

  Food, Drinking, Health

  Etudes sur le vin Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. B

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