That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne; second, the theater.
Belle Livingstone
Presenting the cork is wine nonsense, a ritual invented by captains and sommeliers. The wine snob does not resent ritual. There is infinite ritual in the etiquette of serving wine. But most of it at least hints at style or purpose. Placing an unsightly cork on the tablecloth hints at absurdity.
Leonard S. Bernstein
Taws Noah who first planted the vine and mended his morals by drinking its wine.
Benjamin Franklin
In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary
Ernest Hemingway
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene
This wine should be eaten, for it is much too good to be drunk
Jonathan Swift
And in this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Isaiah
There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard
Mark Twain
A woman drove me to drink, and I'll be a son-of-a-gun but I never even wrote to thank her.
W. C. Fields
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Dorothy Parker
It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
Aldous Huxley
Give me a bowl of wine: have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
William Shakespeare