Wine Quotes

Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine.

Jim Murray

Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine.

Robert Herrick

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine

William Shakespeare

Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Leo Buscaglia

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Carl Jung

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

But there is always a Mass. It is not a formal Mass at all. We were sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It is very informal and small, but to me that is a wonderful way to have Mass.

Linda Vester

Bad news is not wine. It does not improve with age.

Colin Powell

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I do not really socialize with the other actors.

Izabella Scorupco

The good talk that is inseparable from a wine dinner is even more important than the wines that are being served. Never bring up your better bottles if you are entertaining a man who cannot talk. Keep your treasures for a night when those few who are nearest to your heart can gather round your table, free from care, with latchkeys in their pockets and no last train to catch.

Maurice Healy

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

So far as drinking is concerned, you have my hearty approval; for wine does of a truth moisten the soul and lull our griefs to sleep....[and with small cups] we shall ...be brought by its gentle persuasion to a more sportive mood

Xenophon

Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history

Clifton Fadiman

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Lord Byron