Wine Quotes - Page 22

• The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

  William Nicholson

  Drinking, Thinking, Adultery

  William Nicholson (2014). “Motherland: A Novel”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

  Jim Morrison

  Dying, Vines

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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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• Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Vegetables, Half

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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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• Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.

  Francis Thompson

  Summer, Fire, Flames

  James M. Byrne, Francis Thompson (2001). “God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

  Edward Young

  Love, Giving, Madness

  Edward Young (1798). “The Works of Edward Young ...: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.191

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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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• None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

  Donald Evans

  Loyalty, Heaven, Charity

  Donald Evans (1919). “Ironica”

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• Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

  John Wesley

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and part of the eighteenth, numbers of his journal”, p.332

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• Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

  David Brinkley

  Travel, Strong, Home

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• In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.

  George Andrews

  Strong, Science, Technology

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• I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

  Ridley Scott

  Fall, Mean, Drunk

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.

  Kate Winslet

  Thinking, Ideas, Glasses

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

  John Hurt

  Mind, Information, Sometimes

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• There's wisdom in wine.

  Jack Kerouac

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.190, Penguin

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• I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

  Adam Rogers

  Beer, Law, People

  "I Went Drinking With the Author of “Proof,” This New Book on the Science of Booze". Interview with Alex Park, www.motherjones.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

  Brandi Carlile

  Sleep, Air, Breathing

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

  Thomas Campion

  Prudent, Pharmacist, Complaints

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• Wine transforms moles into eagles.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eagles, Moles

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• I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.

  Jared Huffman

  Marijuana, California Coast, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Stars, Two

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• No noble man ever hated good wine.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Noble Man, Hated

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