Wine Quotes

1885 Wine quotes by 1010 unique authors

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are. — Michelangelo
I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame — Robert Mondavi
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine… — Arthur Rubinstein
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits… — George Saintsbury
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. — Walter Scott
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
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit… — Andre Tchelistcheff
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. — John Townsend Trowbridge
By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank. — Alec Waugh
Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about — Edward VII
I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am "in case something happened." But I mostly had nothing to do between 1 and 3 am… — Eric Asimov
I don't know why but I love this kind of project, when it's a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of… — Unknown Author
'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom PÃ©rignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow… — John Green
He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two… — Unknown Author
To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the… — Margrit Mondavi
God made the water but men made the wine. — Victor Hugo
We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but… — Thomas Jefferson
Ye Gads, no! I couldn't stand the noise. — W.C. Fields
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water,… — Cyril Connolly

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