Wine Quotes

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

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

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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

Truth comes out in wine.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.