Quotes about wine
wine simple garden
She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle. Barbara Pym
wine despair vinegar
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
wine views done
I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine. Brian Schmidt
wine blood light
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on Charles Bukowski
wine two together
I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together. Charles Bukowski
wine bakers pudding
Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding Benjamin Franklin
wine darkness fool
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness? Avicenna
wine oysters white
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
wine thinking iron
Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins. Arthur Brisbane
wine drink
I never drink... wine. Bela Lugosi
wine flavor
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor. Anthony Trollope
wine beer bread
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist. Desiderius Erasmus
wine passion smoking
There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar. Demi Moore
wine earth lines
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth. Bob Dylan
wine knives bread
You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine. Billy Collins
wine tired zest
Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired. Brigitte Bardot
wine men ideas
Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. Aristophanes
wine men good-man
The love of wine is a good man's failing. Aristophanes
wine men busy
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends. Aristophanes
wine equality bread
I tasted the bread and wine of equality. Anzia Yezierska
wine cups restraint
Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull. Edmund Spenser
wine collecting enjoy
I enjoy wine collecting and great food. Deep Roy
wine alcohol red
A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up. Denise Richards
wine glasses gentleman
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
wine men europe
Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations. Edna Ferber
wine vines lasts
I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst. Edna St. Vincent Millay
wine drink used
I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints. Edgar Wright
wine water resolve
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. Benjamin Franklin
wine tolerance vines
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance. Benjamin Franklin
wine poor-richard
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth. Benjamin Franklin
wine writing funny-wine
When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it Art Buchwald
wine feet taste
I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep. Art Buchwald
wine bored so-bored
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine. Benjamin Disraeli