Quotes about wine
wine danger
Danger is like wine, it goes to your head. Madame de Stael
wine quality meals
She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines. Haruki Murakami
wine men luxury
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle. Julius Caesar
wine pleasure champagne
Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial. Oscar Wilde
wine devil poetry-is
Poetry is devil's wine. Saint Augustine
wine poetry devil
Poetry is the Devil's wine. Saint Augustine
wine glasses white
I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy. Winston Churchill
wine years long
Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long. Will Rogers
wine bread fool
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
wine noise
Ye Gads, no! I couldn't stand the noise. W. C. Fields
wine water literature
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter. Virginia Woolf
wine peaceful one-day
If I am peaceful, I shall seeBeauty's face continually;Feeding on her wine and breadI shall be wholly comforted,For she can make one day for meRich as my lost eternity. Sara Teasdale
wine drunk drug
And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine. Santiago Durango
wine secret looks
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. Samuel Rutherford
wine play shakespeares-plays
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine. Samuel Johnson
wine giving wish
It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb. Samuel Johnson
wine men drunk
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. Samuel Johnson
wine thinking voice
I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature. Vittorio Grigolo
wine yellow black
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish... Vincent Van Gogh
wine color atmosphere
Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well. Vincent Van Gogh
wine tongue lips
Language is wine upon the lips. Virginia Woolf
wine giving water
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine. Virginia Woolf
wine water best-wine
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. William Blake
wine drunk savour
Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about. William Blake
wine oil ingredients
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting. Washington Irving
wine french-wine my-friends
I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself. Voltaire
wine people champagne
The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people. Voltaire
wine juice september
Wine is the divine juice of September. Voltaire
wine tyrants world
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. William Lloyd Garrison
wine sleep sound
now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound. William Butler Yeats
wine eye glasses
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh. William Butler Yeats
wine elements drink
His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine. William Butler Yeats
wine imagination bed
even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished. William Butler Yeats