Quotes About Wine

Wine is an escape from grief, a slip into sleep, a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day. What better cure for being human?

There's a lot of wine involved and creeping off into corners with men. Meanwhile they call themselves a prayer group! Obviously it's just sex. I've put most of them in jail.

the transcendent gladness of grapes and wine so beneficial to body, soul and psyche's interior design.

Est fou, bien sûr, qui se refuse aux délices du vin, quand on peut dresser haut celui que je tiens là, palper un sein, caresser des deux mains une prairie offerte ! L'or danse et l'on oublie ses maux !

I rejoiced in the Burgundy. It seemed a reminder that the world was an older and better place than Rex knew, that mankind in its long passion had learned another wisdom than his. By chance I met this same wine again, lunching with my wine merchant in St James's Street in the first Autumn of the war; it had softened and faded in the intervening years, but it still spoke in the pure, authentic accent of its prime, the same words of hope.

You're to come away at once, out of danger. I've got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn't a wine you've ever tasted, so don't pretend. It's heaven with strawberries.

I rejoiced in the Burgundy. It seemed a reminder that the world was an older and better place than Rex knew, that mankind in its long passion had learned another wisdom than his. By chance I met this same wine again, lunching with my wine merchant in St. James's Street, in the first autumn of the war; it had softened and faded in the intervening years, but it still spoke in the pure, authentic accent of its prime, the same words of hope. "I

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians of childhood, green as green milk, blue as laundry water, wine dark.

How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.

Leave in a complex state of slumber Your consciousness of science. Look At your white face in the wine's red mirror And then drink the mirror ...and your consciousness

Si bene quid memini, Causae sunt quinque bibendi: Hospitis adventus, praesens sitis atque futura, Aut vini bonitas, aut quaelibet altera causa.* * Jei neklystu, / Yra penkios priežastys gerti: / At?j?s svetys, esamas ar b?simas troškulys, / Geras vynas arba bet kuri kita priežastis.

don't insult myself by giving to dreams a value they do not have, apart from that of being my personal theatre, just as I do not call wine (from which I still do not abstain) 'food' or 'one of life's necessities'.

I dream because I dream, but I don't insult myself by giving to dreams a value they do not have, apart from that of being my personal theatre, just as I do not call wine (from which I still do not abstain) 'food' or 'one of life's necessities'.

I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well. In moderation wine is good for you - mentally physically and spiritually.

For her birthday, a woman honoured her natalis Juno (Tib., 4, 6, 14): Here is a triple offering of cakes, chaste goddess, a triple offering of pure wine.

There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.

Not an elegant wine or a mellow brandy but harsh spirits.