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Quotes About Wine

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.
~ Richard Wagner
I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
~ Jill Shalvis
Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine.
~ Jim Murray
so I ate a salad, no wine, popped those two aspirins prescribed by Jan, and slept like a baby, except I didn't toss and turn, pee in my pants, or cry every two hours.
~ Jinx Schwartz
Around the corner from home, they stopped to buy a bottle of red wine. Arriving at her apartment door, he could hardly contain his excitement when she turned to him and smiled. "Ready to relax at my place for a while?" "I'd love nothing better than to spend more time with you." And among all the lies he'd told tonight, that was the one big truth he hoped she would remember when the shit hit the fan.
~ Jo Davis
The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle.
~ Jo Walton
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
~ Joan Collins
There was a strange exciting smell in the air - the smell of wine, cigar smoke, and perfume, mingled with the scent of the roses. The bright colors merged into one another, and the music rose and fell.
~ Joan G Robinson
Nomacorc clearly had what most managers would call a "core competence" in chemistry. But its competitive success in the wine market resulted from decisions to deploy those capabilities in activities that enhanced the design and manufacture of wine stoppers.
~ Joan Magretta
Glory sipped her second glass of red wine, impatient for the slight buzz that made her edges blur.
~ Jo-Ann Mapson
How 'bout this? You go ahead and feel guilty about being an accomplice, and I'll go ahead keep doing your dirty work so you don't break a fuckin' nail or something. Then tonight we'll open a bottle of wine and talk about how today made us deel. Maybe eat some chocolate while we're at it, then watch The Notebook together. That work for you?
~ Joanna Wylde
Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. A few glasses on wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost.
~ Ann Fairbairn
I see why you tolerate Mrs. Bevan's eccentric manners. What a pity she's forgotten cutlery." Merrick sipped his golden wine. The pleasure on his face reminded her of his expression after kissing her. Devil take him, everything reminded her of his kisses. "What a pity," he said with spurious regret. "Eating with one's fingers is so... primitive." She blushed. He turned the most innocent words into an invitation to wickedness.
~ Anna Campbell
She dropped it in her lap, picked up a cup and proceeded to consume the entire contents of a jug of wine.
~ Anne Easter Smith
Oh yes, thank you, Kitty,' she said and then sat and looked at her food. At one point she keeled forward and laid her cheek along her cigarette arm, which was stuck out straight across the tabletop. She was weeping. If such a thing can be said of someone who was making no sound and shedding no tears. Then she straightened up, pushed the palm of her hand up across her cheek and resumed her cigarette, ate through exhaled smoke, and poured herself some red wine.
~ Anne Enright
I have all my regrets between pouring the wine and reaching for the glass.
~ Anne Enright
It was lovely wine, soft and full of flowers.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Like a fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's always unwise to shoot the man you're in love with.
~ Anne Stuart
A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, ìA man can live without art, but not without culture.
~ Anonymous
Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat.
~ Anonymous
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.
~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Diontsos]. Swoony type, long hair, bedroom eyes, cheeks like wine.
~ Euripides