Wine Quotes · Page 204

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

— MF Grimm

I'm not here for a long time, I'm here for a good time. To hell with the red wine, pour me some…

— Anonymous

I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken,…

— Karen Marie Moning

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl…

— Jack Kerouac

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at…

— Jill Clayburgh

Outta town, spent a couple nights at chows. Smoking weed in the suites, til we out of towels.

— Wale

Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of…

— Robert Herrick

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

— Irving Ravetch

There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and…

— Aaron Paul

Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber.…

— Randy Barnett

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple…

— Charles Kennedy

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't…

— Wilkie Collins

I don't know if enjoy is the right word for alcohol. I like to drink, but I don't like enforced social drinking.…

— Nick Tosches

'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple…

— Andre Aciman

I do enjoy a beer. And a shot of vodka with some apple juice is what loosens me up before I go…

— Ladyhawke

“The wine god sighed. 'Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as…

— Rick Riordan

“Wine,” declared the nineteenth-century novelist Alexandre Dumas, “is the intellectual part of the meal.”

— Bianca Bosker

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try…

— Paul Gascoigne

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

— Pliny the Elder

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

— Gloria Gaynor

“...People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.”

— Michael Pollan

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

— Bette Davis

Pink cocktails look quite friendly. They have an umbrella in them, some sort of fruit... they look innocent, and boy, do they…

— Jared Harris

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

— Charles Dickens

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

— Samuel Johnson

“You’ve been smoking again, haven’t you? Your eyes look like road maps and you’re in full bastard mode.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

— Edmund Spenser

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it…

— Saul Bellow

To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."

— Diogenes

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

— William Shakespeare

I don't smoke, drink, do drugs or even have affairs. If I don't even swear, I should be put in a shrine…

— Farah Khan

I including some other friends I said come on down and have a sip again Not one, not two, not three, four…

— Laurel Aitken

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

— Ernest Hemingway

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

— Alexander Fleming

I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time…

— William Gibson

'Warning: Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth.'...Found MY brand! Just don't get the ones that say 'lung cancer.'

— Bill Hicks

When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's…

— Chrissie Hynde

No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.

— Harry Browne

“... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.”

— Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle…

— C. S. Lewis