Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

Diane Keaton

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

Diane Keaton

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

Brian Eno

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

Brandi Carlile

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

Bobby Sherman

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

Aaron Hill

When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

Abraham Lincoln

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

C. S. Lewis

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

C. S. Lewis

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

Clement Freud

Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.

Clement Attlee

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Cyril Connolly

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Cornelia Funke

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

Colin Meloy

If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.

David Steel

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

David Chalmers

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

David Letterman

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

Thomas Fuller

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Ernest Bramah

Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

Ernest Dowson

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

Ernest Dowson

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine...

Erin Morgenstern

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

Cassandra Clare

[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.

Caroline Knapp

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.

Karl Marx

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

Julia Child

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

Julia Child

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

Julia Child

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

Julia Child

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

Julia Child

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

Julia Child

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life