Wine Quotes · Page 90

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

— Robin Williams

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.

— Moses ibn Ezra

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

— John Galsworthy

Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

— Brigitte Bardot

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things…

— Ernest Hemingway

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to…

— Samuel Johnson

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

— Frank J. Prial

“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken…

— Victoria Finlay

Come quickly, I'm drinking stars.

— Dom Perignon

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of…

— Garrison Keillor

“One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded…

— Lisa Daily

For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable…

— Richard Avedon

Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around -…

— Pam Houston

And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers…

— Lord Byron

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

— Kingsley Amis

Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and…

— Milan Kundera

I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like…

— Erik Spiekermann

Fumes of wine shorten the long road.

— Bai Juyi

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

— John Arlott

My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more…

— Ted Dekker

“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to…

— C. JoyBell C

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the…

— Carl Sagan

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon…

— Thomas Love Peacock

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

— James Joyce