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Quotes About Wine

Peter handed me a glass of wine—my own Neon White Red,
~ Elizabeth Bear
The wine was finished; the night's conversation drifted into sitting and dozing, watching the night.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The scent is hot wine, acidic and intense. Spicy, irresistible.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Charity couldn't bring herself to cry on Lady Beddington's shoulder -- not until after she'd mopped up a plate or two of spaghetti with buckets of cheap red wine.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Paul made a show of choosing an appropriate wine from the list, and Edna Valley Chardonnay, and the waiter made a show of presenting him the bottle and decanting him a taste, and Paul made a show of tasting and approving, and the waiter made a show of pouring for everyone,...
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
Mientras hay vino en la mesa, hay esperanza en el corazón
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
la amistad se nutre de rondas de vino, estocadas hombro con hombro y silencios oportunos
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Respecto al vino, decía el capitán que ya tendría tiempo en la vida de beber hasta reventar, si lo quisiera, y que para eso nunca se le hacía demasiado tarde a un hombre;
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Vino ajeno y miseria propia. El reposo breve de un guerrero.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Sydney Smith was an after-dinner writer. His words have a flow, a vigor, an expression, which is not given to hungry mortals. You seem to read of good wine, of good cheer, of beaming and buoyant enjoyment. There is little trace of labor in his composition ; it is poured forth like an unceasing torrent, rejoicing daily to run its course.
~ bagehot walter iii
Lunch] was composed of one of the fish she had caught, evidently rescued from Mogget. This had been grilled with ginger, pepper, and some spice she didn't know, set atop a salad of grains and greenleaf, accompanied by a lightly sparkling clear wine she had to admit was delicious and refreshing.
~ Garth Nix
They drank a cheap Hungarian riesling that spelled "headache" after the third glass. They held hands. The lights were going out at the Garibaldi nursing home across the street, a five-story residence built in the sixties to prove how closely a building could resemble Formica.
~ Gary Shteyngart
But strength still goes out from your thorns, and from your abysses the sound of music. Your shadows lie on my heart like roses and your nights are like strong wine.
~ Gene Wolfe
Now, my friends, keep you from the white and from the red, and especially from the white wine of Spain that is for sale in the streets of London. This wine of Spain creeps subtly into other wines, which are grown nearby, from which there rise such fumes to the head that, when a man has drunk three draughts and thinks he is at home in London, he is in Spain, right at the town of Lepe—not in La Rochelle, nor at Bordeaux town—and then will he drunkenly say, "Samson, Samson!
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detaches itself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the planet.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hath she her faults? I would you had them too. They are the fruity must of soundest wine Or say, they are the regenerating fire Such as hath turned the dense black element Into a crystal pathway for the sun.
~ George Eliot
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine, Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.
~ George Herbert
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.
~ Maya Angelou
I fell in love with wine in Napa Valley. I fell in love with the culture and the restaurants and the way the wood tastes when you're drinking wine.
~ Charles Woodson
My dream date would be a hike through the woods followed by an outdoor picnic followed by a glass of wine at sunset. Heaven!
~ Nina Agdal
But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
~ Kate Fleetwood
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
~ Samuel Johnson