Top 1200 Bottles Of Wine Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Women are like wine: I can only afford the really cheap ones that have the big, ugly boxes that leak.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity.

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

It's all about everything in moderation. If I want a glass of wine I'm going to have it, or some chocolate - sure why not!

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

When I'm out, I like a glass of red wine. Just before bed, I'll always have a chamomile tea.

And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry.

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now. "No. Wine?

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.

English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

America's craft brewers know that beer, not wine, is the best beverage for accompanying a good meal.

Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.

There's nothing better than online shopping in your PJ's with a glass of wine with the kids asleep!

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

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

The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle of wine.

I used to drink straight Hennessy, but I started drinking wine and champagne. It's easier to tour like that.

I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting.

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.