Wine Quotes - Page 6

• A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.

  Michael Broadbent

  Sight, Years, Labels

  Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

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• An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lips, Connoisseur, Collision

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.40, University of Georgia Press

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• A little saint best fits a little shrine,
  A little prop best fits a little vine,
  As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Saint, Vines, Shrines

  'A Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly sent to a Lady'

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• I tasted - careless - then -
  I did not know the Wine
  Came once a World - Did you?
  Oh, had you told me so -
  This Thirst would blister - easier - now

  Emily Dickinson

  World, Easier, Blisters

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.

  Frank J. Prial

  Southern Italy, Tea, Insane

  "WINE TALK; Beaujolais Presents Its Nobler Profile" by Frank J. Prial, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2000.

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• Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.
  Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,
  Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,
  Creations and destroyings, all at once
  Pour into the wide hollows of my brain,
  And deify me, as if some blithe wine
  Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,
  And so become immortal.

  John Keats

  Agony, Names, Voice

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.307, e-artnow

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• I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.

  Richard Thaler

  Taste, Rating, Ability

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• Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

  Tina Turner

  Emotional, Champagne Drinking, Laughing

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• On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Night, Add, Ease

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• Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

  Basil Bunting

  Preparation

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• White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

  James Joyce

  White, Looks, Red

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• Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

  Eric Idle

  Drinking, Bottles, Laying Down

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• A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  May, Infinite, Increasing Knowledge

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Religions change; beer and wine remain.

  Hervey Allen

  Beer, Religion, Beer And Wine

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Glasses, Obscure, Claims

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• I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again.

  Sally Jessy Raphael

  Sweet, Ideas, White

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• Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

  St. Jerome

  Devil, Use, Weapons

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• I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Pills, Dessert, Accustomed

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.373, Lulu.com

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• Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.220

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• The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.

  Alfred de Musset

  Brother, Speak, Moments

  Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “The confession of a child of the century tr. by Kendall Warren”

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• Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

  Michael Broadbent

  Food And Wine, Accompanists

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• The air is like a draught of wine.
  The undertaker cleans his sign,
  The Hull express goes off the line,
  When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.

  Noel Coward

  Air, Hull, Lines

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• Poetry is devil's wine.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Giving, Pleasure

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.220

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• When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

  Art Buchwald

  Writing, Funny Wine, Doe

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