Wine Quotes

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

Alec Waugh

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry

Louis Pasteur

One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and--one talks about it.

King Edward VII

Where there is no wine there is no love.

Euripides

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Charles Baudelaire

Friendship is the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure

Edward Young

Drink to me only with thin eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I will not look for wine

Ben Jonson

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

William Shakespeare

Good wine needs no bush.

William Shakespeare

This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

Dylan Thomas

After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, pour out to all that wull.

Edmund Spenser

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore

Robert Louis Stevenson

His element is so fine being sharpened by his death, to drink from the wine-breath while our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

W.B.Yeats

Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout? And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The wines that one best remembers are not necessarily the finest that one has ever tasted, and the highest quality may fail to delight so much as some far more humble beverage drunk in more favorable surroundings

H. Warner Allen

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

Samuel Johnson

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Samuel Johnson

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Cardinal Richeleu

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help

Jane Austen

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

Lord Byron, Don Juan

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

Robert Herrick

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise endow.

Omar Khayyam

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