Wine Quotes
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It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.
Russell Baker
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Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.
Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.
Ben Aaronovitch
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I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.
David Steel
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Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
William Wycherley
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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.
Ernest Dowson
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Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.
George Ellwanger
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My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I love to lose myself in a good book.
Kasi Lemmons
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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
Tim Ferriss
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One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.
Amor Towles
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The sparkling wines from Ridgeview Estate ... are superb and will forever put to rest the notion that England is not capable of making good wine.
Eric Asimov
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I don't drink no whiskey but I'm a fool about my home made wine. I stays around Dallas cause I makes it there all the time.
Blind Lemon Jefferson
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My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.
George Washington
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
Thomas More
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The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.
Herodotus
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I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.
Michael Caine
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One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.
Gerald Asher
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Shhhh gyal wine and flex Shhhh tell dem seh a yuh a di best Yuh look better gyal Yuh look better Show dem your move gyal Show dem your move
Christophe Le Friant
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The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
Cecilia Bartoli
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One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.
Lois McMaster
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Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
Brett Gelman
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It was an okay vintage, if you could get past the fact that it was wine, and-stripped of the ability to get drunk on it-wine was just sour grape juice.
Charles Stross
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A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
Ernest Hemingway
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus