Wine Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer Download Open image ““And once he had got really drunk on wine, Then he would speak no language but Latin.”” — Geoffrey Chaucer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wine
“and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet.” — Kafka, Franz Copy Share Image
“He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The wine is gone. Only sour wine fumes remain. Drunkenness pretends to resolution.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart As greet as it had been a thonder-dent, That with the strook he was almoost yblent; And… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“In general, my liege lady,’ he began, ‘Women desire to have dominion Over their husbands, and their lovers too; They want to have mastery… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Venus me yaf my lust, my like rousnesse, And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis; Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.” — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“She kneeled down, opened the wine fridge, and scanned the shelves, filled with a variety of white wines. Sam began to pull each bottle… — Viola Shipman Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Oh to that corkscrew, the useful tool to unlock the treasure of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
He opened up the tent where I was actually literally bent over a chair getting my crack touched up and I turned around and… — Rebecca Romijn Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots. — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white… — Julia Child Copy Share Image