Wine Quotes

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.

He opened up the tent where I was actually literally bent over a chair getting my crack touched up and I turned around and said, 'don't come in here Bryan, you don't need to be seeing this!' and he said, 'ooh, you need some white wine.' He handed me a glass of wine.

I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

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.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

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