Makes Quote by Samuel Johnson

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

— Samuel Johnson

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But…

— James Boswell

“Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of…

— Samuel Johnson

Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that…

— Samuel Johnson

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

— Ovid

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

— Plato

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

— Samuel Johnson

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

— Andrew Sharp

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

— Roger Scruton

Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what…

— Edwin Percy Whipple