Grapes Quotes
203 quotes by 167 authors
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
— Paracelsus
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It all went a bit grape-shaped.
— Jason McAteer
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling…
— John Keats
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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their…
— Adam Smith
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...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want…
— Unknown Author
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If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when…
— Oswald Chambers
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Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his…
— Caryll Houselander
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I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money,…
— Carmen Miranda
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
— Epictetus
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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all…
— Edith Wharton
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Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater…
— Larry Hovis
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I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make…
— Brian Regan
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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking…
— Amy Hempel
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
— Frederic Raphael
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Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat…
— Laurie Colwin
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Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
— John Sandford
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You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
— Jacques Roumain
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