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Wine Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
- My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
- A bottle of wine was good company.
- A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
- Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
- I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine…
- The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
- Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and…
- As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving…
- I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking,…
- Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought…
- Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary...
- Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
- It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you…
- A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the…
More Wine Quotes
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. — Honore de Balzac
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!… — Charles Baudelaire
- Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and… — Gina Barreca
- A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. — Charles Baudelaire
- Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. — Sarah Bernhardt
- I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce