Air Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

“Wine, like sex, was an immanent divine force, and the wash of its warm ecstasy was experienced as a communion with Dionysus. It is…

— Kyle Harper

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And…

— George Crabbe

“The appreciation of wine was based solely on the way it tasted. The invention of drinking glasses meant that the color, transparency, and clarity…

— Mark Miodownik

“And when wine has soaked Cupid’s drunken wings, he’s stayed, weighed down, a captive of the place. ... Wine rouses courage and is fit…

— Ovid

Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.

— Walter Moers

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And…

— John Milton

“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of…

— William Hazlitt

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in…

— Charles Dickens

“For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same. But as…

— Geoffrey Wood

Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to…

— Virginia Woolf

Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is…

— Michael Freeman