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Wine Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
- Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not…
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,…
- The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old…
- [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
- For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven,…
- And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get…
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- 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