Wine Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

A bottle of wine was good company.

— Ernest Hemingway

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

— Ernest Hemingway

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

— Ernest Hemingway

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

— Ernest Hemingway

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

— Ernest Hemingway

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

— Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

— Ernest Hemingway

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

— Ernest Hemingway

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

— Ernest Hemingway

“All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was…

— Ernest Hemingway

“You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“Well,' Bill said, 'we might as well have another drink.' 'Damned good idea,' Mike said. 'One never gets anywhere by discussing finances.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be…

— Ernest Hemingway

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in…

— Ernest Hemingway

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except…

— Ernest Hemingway

“We are governed by what you find in the bottom of dead beer glasses that whores have dunked their cigarettes in. The…

— Ernest Hemingway

“We had a Corsican wine that had great authority and a low price. It was a very Corsican wine and you could…

— Ernest Hemingway

I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too…

— Ernest Hemingway

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine…

— Ernest Hemingway

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not…

— Ernest Hemingway

The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I think you’ll find that’s very good wine,” he said. “I know we don’t get much of a chance to judge good…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It was baking hot in the square when we came out after lunch with our bags and the rod-case to go to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He got up from the floor and reached for the whisky bottle. Nick held out his glass. His eyes fixed on it…

— Ernest Hemingway

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

— Ernest Hemingway

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well…

— Ernest Hemingway

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

— Ernest Hemingway

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to…

— Ernest Hemingway

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

— Ernest Hemingway

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

— Ernest Hemingway

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You…

— Ernest Hemingway

This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and…

— Ernest Hemingway

Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor…

— Ernest Hemingway