Quotes About Wine

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered.

There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.

He was California from the tips of his port wine loafers to the buttoned and tieless brown and yellow checked shirt inside his rough cream sports jacket.

From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder                Thales sipped cheap wine                And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!

He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.

He used sweet wine in place of life because he didn't have any more life to use.

Down the wide, cool center hall I head to the shadowy, high, tin-ceilinged kitchen that smells of garlic, fruit and refrigerator freon, where I unload my wine into the big Sub-Zero.

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. The trick is moderation, he said.

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner.

It's all about the French Paradox, that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of wine, yet still manage to be svelte and sophisticated, not to mention cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

The great vault over our heads was gradually filled with clarity like a glass with wine.

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

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

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

Wine is only sweet to happy men.