Drinking Quotes
1652 quotes by 1131 authors
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Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.
— Julia Child
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Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend…
— Samuel Pepys
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When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about…
— Alexis Lichine
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I am drinking the stars
— Dom Perignon
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The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking
— Alexis Lichine
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Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is…
— Eric Idle
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The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect…
— Joseph Haydn
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Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about
— Edward VII
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Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
— Clifton Fadiman
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first…
— James Boswell
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My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's…
— Sean Connery
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There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.
— Lemmy Kilmister
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Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started…
— Gregory Hines
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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking.
— Simon Cowell
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the…
— William James
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
— Ernest Hemingway
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