Wine Quotes - Page 12

• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Break Even, Gambling

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

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• I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

  W. C. Fields

  Beautiful, Drinking, Blonde

  Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (motion picture) (1941).

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• Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
  Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

  John Milton

  Crush, Sweet, Purple

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.70

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• To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines,
  Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

  Alexander Pope

  Purple, Vines, Slumber

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.533, Oxford University Press

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• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

  Euripides

  Grief, Sleep, Son

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• You can't cheat an honest man.

  W. C. Fields

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Title of motion picture (1939).

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• Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
  On her sweet self set her own price,
  Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
  How has she cheapened paradise;
  How given for nought her priceless gift,
  How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine,
  Which, spent with due respective thrift,
  Had made brutes men and men divine.

  Coventry Patmore

  Sweet, Men, Self

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The angel in the house. The victories of love”

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• Seamen three! what men be ye?
  Gotham's three Wise Men we be.
  Whither in your bowl so free?
  To rake the moon from out the sea.
  The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine,
  And our ballast is old wine.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Wise, Moon, Men

  Thomas Love Peacock (1850). “Headlong hall and Nightmare abbey”, p.152

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• After-dinner talk
  Across the walnuts and the wine.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dinner, Walnuts

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• Go fetch to me a pint o' wine,
  An' fill it in a silver tassie.

  Robert Burns

  Fetch, Silver, Pints

  'My Heart's in the Highlands' (1790)

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• One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Running, Writing, Men

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

  Paul Tillich

  Divine, Incarnation, Humans

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• [I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

  Homer

  Men, Wisest Man, Dancing

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.481, Penguin

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• I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

  George Mikes

  Hangover, Night, Next Day

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• There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

  Isak Dinesen

  Way, Recognition, Burgundy

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.100, Vintage

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• That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

  Joseph Epstein

  Drinking, Beer, Beer Drinking

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• What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Dream, Taste

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

  Jane Austen

  Climate, Want, Kingdoms

  Jane Austen (1848). “Northanger Abbey: A Novel”, p.47

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• Souls of poets dead and gone,
  What Elysium have ye known,
  Happy field or mossy cavern,
  Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
  Have ye tippled drink more fine
  Than mine host's Canary wine?

  John Keats

  Mermaid, Soul, Elysium

  'Lines on the Mermaid Tavern' (1820)

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• Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

  John Masefield

  Ballads (1903) "Captain Stratton's Fancy"

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• Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Travel, Book, Drinking

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• Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

  Benjamin Franklin

  Bakers, Pudding, Spares

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.42, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• His element is so fine
  Being sharpened by his death,
  To drink from the wine-breath
  While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

  William Butler Yeats

  Elements, Drink, Palate

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.118

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• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

  Kingsley Amis

  Strong, Writing, Glasses

  "Toast of the town" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.

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• He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Intellectual, Dinner

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