Wine Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher

9 Wine quotes by M. F. K. Fisher

Fisher’s writing celebrated food as memory, and her wine snippets are a tiny extension of that reverence. In nine short passages she invites you to savor the glass as a story.

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There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

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

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Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

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One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.

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A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink,…

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. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive…

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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer…

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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.

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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and…

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gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love.

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At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny…

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In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

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... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

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The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves… A writer years ago…

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In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in…

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This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they…

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death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of…

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Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I…

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The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

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I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less…

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It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day,…

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