Wine Quotes - Page 21

• Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.

  Cate Marvin

  Real, Beer, White

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Thinking, Glasses, Should

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.

  Donna Air

  Fun, Believe, Chocolate

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

  Robert B. Parker

  Substitutes, Palate, Tasting

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• If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wise, Lying, Thinking

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• When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

  Richard Burton

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  "Bottled Wisdom: Over 1,000 Spirited Quotations & Anecdotes" by Mark Pollman, Wildstone Media, (p. 146), January 1, 1998.

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• Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

  Lord Byron

  Cups

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1969, Delphi Classics

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• Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
  And fires us
  With courage, love and joy.
  Women and wine should life employ.
  Is there ought else on earth desirous?

  John Gay

  Life, Courage, Fire

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 1, air 19

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• Come quickly, I'm drinking stars.

  Dom Perignon

  Stars, Drinking

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• I know of no one who has been more helpful to the industry. His teachings and consultations internationally, without doubt, improved the quality of winemaking in our country. He was a friend to everyone interested in fine wine.

  Robert Mondavi

  Country, Teaching, Doubt

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• A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

  Bob Marley

  Alcohol, Doe, Littles

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• Some folks of cider make a rout
  And cider's well enough no doubt
  When better liquors fail;
  But wine, that's richer, better still,
  Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will)
  Must yield to nappy ale

  John Gay

  Beer, Yield, Doubt

  John Gay (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.102

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• Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

  Francis Bacon

  Powerful, Passion, Fuel

  "Temperance Essays And Selections From Different Authors". Book edited by Edward C. Delavan, 1865.

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• Wine to me is all about sharing.

  Robert Mondavi

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

  Robert Mondavi

  Giving, World, Satisfaction

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• My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

  Hugh Grant

  Dad, Bottles, Used

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• I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

  Robert Mondavi

  Spring, Sunshine, Blessing

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family.

  Stephen White

  Philosophy, Good Food, Good Wine

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• The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Suffering, Together, Body

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• Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

  Robert Mondavi

  Men, Civilized, Has Beens

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• Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

  Robert Mondavi

  Father, Stanford University, Lawyer

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• Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Ale, Bottles

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

  Graham Greene

  Thinking, Blood, Air

  "Monsignor Quixote". Book by Graham Greene, 1982.

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• The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

  Lord Byron

  Sight, Blood, Long

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1252, Delphi Classics

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• The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

  Lord Byron

  Wall, Cities, White

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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