Good Wine Quotes

• Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Wine, People

  1613 Guildford. Henry VIII, act 1, sc.4, l.6-7.

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  Jack Lemmon

  Funny, Music, Morning

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• If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Soul, Body

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Stars, Wine, Discovery

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• Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Food, Wine, Cooking

  "The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas J. Fleming, p. 250, 1969.

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• Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

  Michael Broadbent

  Drinking, Wine, Vineyards

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

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• A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wine, Shining, Bottles

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.473, e-artnow

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• I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wine, Bored, So Bored

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 1, 1845.

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• Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

  James Howell

  Wine, Men, Blood

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.329, Harvard University Press

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• Good wine needs no bush.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Needs

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, epilogue l. [3]

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• If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Drinking, Wine, Made

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• French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

  James Howell

  Wine, Men, Blood

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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• If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

  Henry Aldrich

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  'Reasons for Drinking'

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• I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'

  Gerald Asher

  Wine, Play, Two

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• Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

  A. J. Liebling

  Wine, Insulting, Bottles

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.6, North Point Press

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• One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Running, Writing, Wine

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

  George Saintsbury

  Book, Wine, People

  George Saintsbury (2008). “Notes on a Cellar-Book”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sympathy, Condolences, Wine

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• Where there is no wine there is no love.

  Euripides

  Wine, Bottles Of Wine, Wine And Love

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• Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

  Walter Scott

  Wine, Needs, Red

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• I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Wine, Jelly, Lord

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