Wine Quotes

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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help. — Jane Austen
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young — St. Jerome
Poetry is devil's wine. — Saint Augustine
A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience. — Michael Broadbent
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to… — Homer
Over the wine-dark sea. — Homer
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by.… — Euripides
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? — Horace
One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly,… — Yoshida Kenko
A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. — William Shakespeare
Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. — Robert Herrick
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
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine.… — Victor Hugo
"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon." — Charles Dickens
To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine. — Jules Renard
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of… — Isak Dinesen
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. — Ambrose Bierce
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
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. — Plutarch

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