Wine Quotes - Page 32

• If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years I'm used to it. I don't find it difficult not being drunk when other people are, but I get uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable with where I am.

  Martin Shaw

  Scotch, Years, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,
  A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

  Eugene Field

  Honest, Candor, Certain

  Eugene Field, “The Bottle And The Bird”

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• Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.

  Robert Mondavi

  Civilization, Culture, Heritage

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• Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

  Joe Bastianich

  Hero, Funny Things, Shoes

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• Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

  David Denby

  Class, White, Details

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• Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

  Bob Hope

  Song, Juice, Pads

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• But the gospel doesn't need a coalition devoted to keeping the wrong people out. It needs a family of sinners, saved by grace, committed to tearing down the walls, throwing open the doors, and shouting, "Welcome! There's bread and wine. Come eat with us and talk." This isn't a kingdom for the worthy; it's a kingdom for the hungry.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Wall, Doors, People

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.149, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I accept that keeping in shape doesn't come naturally, so I work hard. I hit the gym every day: Pilates, yoga, weights. I used to love wine but I've stopped drinking. I quit smoking and I'll never start again.

  Linda Evangelista

  Drinking, Yoga, Hard Work

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• Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

  Athenaeus

  Horse, Water

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• 'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Reading, Would Be, Needs

  Albert Bushnell Hart (1895). “Studies in American Education”, New York : Longmans, Green

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• A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.

  Nicholas Fairbairn

  Taken, Thinking, Office

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• Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living.

  Alexis Lichine

  Glasses, Fine, Symbols

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• If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you’re in a good place and you’re in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

  Salma Hayek

  Numbers, Alarms, Red

  "Salma Hayek Covers More Magazine: Actress Talks ‘Sexting’ Her Husband Francois-Henri Pinault". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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• While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it.

  Natalie MacLean

  Appreciate, Sensual, May

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• Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

  Jane Seymour

  Sleep, Thinking, Glasses

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Pigs, Doors

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• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lonely, Kings, Stars

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Wrinkles

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• Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.

  Eoin Colfer

  Running, Queens, Wife

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• The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sweet, Poison, Use

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• But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

  Caroline Knapp

  Glasses, Light, Safety

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.39, Dial Press

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• The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Men, Rights, Justice

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• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Lonely, New York

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Sweet, Coffee, Kissing

  "Coffee Cantata". Cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach (libretto), 1732.

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• We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

  Edith Wharton

  Bottles, Opening, Ought

  Edith Wharton (2011). “The Custom of the Country (鄉土風俗)”, p.1083, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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