Quotes About Wine

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there's gonna be wine in the mix at some point.

still can't get any correlations that make sense." He sighed. "At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there's gonna be wine in the mix at some point.

Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and outright lies he'd fed them

By the way, when the tongue is eager to meet an extraordinary wine, when the palate is in hope of being flooded with the sublime, the human jaws are not at will to clearly articulate the traditional "À vôtre santé!" Their impatience to start the drinking process produces a delightful elliptic version, heard constantly throughout wine-tasting cellars, that is: "À vôt' santé!

The power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged, God has kept that good wine until now. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst.

One of my favorite cuisines is Italian so I love visiting Italy.

She'd been drinking jug wine steadily for four hours.

With whiskey, the capillary bloom was more diffusely rosy than with gin and less purple than with wine. Every university dinner party was a study in blooms.

Words are symbols that assume a shared memory. The memory I now want to set down is mine alone; all those who share it have died. The mystics invoke a rose, a kiss, a bird that is all birds, a sun that is all the stars and the sun, a jug of wine, a garden, or the sexual act. Of these metaphors, none will serve me for that long, joyous night, which left us, tired out and happy, at the borders of dawn.

They went down to Paw Paw to get a couple of truckloads of grapes we bought for one of our non-estate wines.

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare...On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... [F]our dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Truth comes out in wine.

In vino veritas

In vino veritas ("In wine, truth")

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter, and in wine.

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Time, Wine, Women, and fortune, are ever changing.

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

One well known English professor of Greek burst out in anger at our saving that a potent potion was drunk at Fleusis: we had touched him at a sensitive spot. He seemed to wish to join the class of those pastors in our Bible Belt who, when Prohibition was flying high, seriously pretended that Jesus served grape juice, not wine, at his Last Supper!