Wine Quotes - Page 19

• Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

  Alfred de Musset

  Men, Intoxicated, Discretion

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• One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for if I do not, I must think him a beast.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Liars, Lying, Believe

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.104, Oxford University Press

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• While man can still his body keep
  Wine or love drug him to sleep,
  Waking he thanks the Lord that he
  Has body and its stupidity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Men, Stupidity

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

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• The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

  Jamie Goode

  Conscious, Score, Rating

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• Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?

  Jamie Goode

  Drinking, Two, People

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• Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

  Kent Bach

  Drinking, Doe, Pleasure

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• Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

  Tim Crane

  Made, Artifacts, Made It

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• Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

  Tim Crane

  Art, Intellectual, Messages

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• Look not thou on beauty's charming;
  Sit thou still when kings are arming;
  Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
  Speak not when the people listens

  Walter Scott

  Kings, People, Looks

  Walter Scott, James Reed (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Psychology Press

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• Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mean, Play, Excess

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• A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Drinking, Character, Vices

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• A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Mean, Sunshine

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• When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has increased the fund from which he may draw for new figural developments. In other words, as the background of his experience becomes more diversified, it also becomes potentially more harmonious with a whole range of happenings.

  Erving Polster

  Running, Flower, Motorcycle

  Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

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• Wine has drowned more than the sea.

  Publilius Syrus

  Sea

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• That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.

  Rachael Ray

  Thinking, Might, Cheese

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• The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

  Charles Babbage

  Men, Giving, Office

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

  Glennon Melton

  Drinking, Opportunity, Clothes

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• Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

  Ring Lardner, Jr.

  Water, Alcohol, Drink

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• Earlier this week Donald Trump gave an interview with CNN at a winery he owns in Virginia. It turns out Trump's winery makes two different kinds of wine: white wine and not-white wine.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Virginia, Two, White

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• What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

  Cyril Connolly

  Sun, Taught, Grapes

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• If Dracula would be happy there, so will your wine.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Would Be, Ifs

  Jennifer Rosen (2006). “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It”, p.104, Clerisy Press

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• Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?

  Jennifer Rosen

  Fun, My Friends, Ifs

  Jennifer Rosen (2005). “Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration and Education by America's Wittiest Wine Critic”, p.235

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• Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Spiritual, Beer, Awakening

  Jennifer Rosen (2006). “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It”, p.13, Clerisy Press

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• A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.

  Kurt Russell

  Dream, Class, Tails

  "How Kurt Russell turned into a 'pinot poodle'". www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2015.

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• Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.

  Christian McKay

  People, Tvs, Selling

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