Wine Quotes

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A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a… — Frank J. Prial
Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist. — Michael Broadbent
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our… — Clifton Fadiman
Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. — Charles Baudelaire
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff — Leonard Bernstein
Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering. — Stephen Potter
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man. — Hippocrates
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. — Ambrose Bierce
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen. — Moliere
Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting… — A J Liebling
On Sherry: The destiny of a thousand generations is concentrated in each drop. If the cares of the world overwhelm you, only taste it, pilgrim,… — Unknown Author
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Unknown Author
Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. — Ambrose Bierce
Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read… — William Blake
The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises. — Miguel de Cervantes
Wine taken in moderation never does any harm. — Miguel de Cervantes
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor. — Clifton Fadiman
The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any… — Benjamin Franklin

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