Quote by Diogenes

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

— Marguerite de Navarre

“The vine needs to suffer. Going down into this earth-fighting to survive among the stones, among the lime rock-this is what gives it its…

— Tessa Afshar

What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

— Roger Scruton

I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Since the discovery of the fermented grape, humans have experienced the pain and the frustration of addiction.”

— David W Earle

“We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear…

— Matt Haig

The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich…

— Isabel Allende

turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single…

— Suzanne Collins

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

— Samuel Johnson

“A grape may be a raisin, and taste the sweeter for it, but even a raisin will rot on the vine, if you do…

— E.J. Patten