Quotes About Wine

The night I wedded her, I went to bed smelling of fresh wine, fleeces, figs and great affluence, and she on her side reeked of lubricant, saffron seeds, tongue kisses, wealth, gluttony and the Goddess of Sex.

Yet upon that afternoon, whether it was the Beaune which I had taken with my lunch or the additional exasperation produced by the extreme deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer.

They received food from the monks at the churches they visited, and when they drank the blood-red wine and broke off the golden crust from the bread made of wheat, all four priests from the barley lands understood why Christ had honored wine and wheat, which were purer than all other foodstuffs that God had given humankind, by manifesting himself in their likeness during the holy communion.

So this evening has gone about as hideously as it possibly could. There's only one solution, which is to keep drinking wine until my nerves have been numbed or I pass out. Whichever comes first. Supper

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

Let us drink wine to remember what kind of mystical beauties life offers us and to comprehend what sort of magic potions existence has!

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine.

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grapeCrush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

When nightDarkens the streets, then wander forth the sonsOf Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

In the balance of verse 51:7, though, Jeremiah gives us a further insight into the influence of the Daughter of Babylon on the people of the world: "Intoxicating all the earth, the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are going mad.

If it be contrary to man's nature that he should live like a mere pig, or a tiger, or any form of brute beast, it is equally contrary to his nature not to like a good dinner, and to shrink from a glass of good wine.

I'm offering good friends and evil enemies, eternal day and endless night, rousing song and strong wine, hardships, victories, despair, and glory.

I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire

Plato—"No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.

O wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee Death."*

Ellery Queen was here probably paraphrasing the Shakespearian quotation: "O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Thus, if passionate love is like cocaine, then companionate is more like a glass of fine wine - something delicious and pleasurable, but with fewer health palpitations and less mania.

You are a virgin," Layla said, sighing. "Think of it as an unavoidable stage of life, like getting old and toothless and having to drink soup. Unfortunately, men seem to think that women are like new wine, good only before being uncorked.

Moreover, when there is rough ground to be covered, a glass of wine does not go amiss.

The wine of immortality I carry with me, and so am never thirsty.

Se ripercorro col pensiero, adesso, fin dal principio, tutta la mia storia con N., imparo che il cuore, nelle sue gare contro la coscienza, è estroso, avveduto e fantastico quanto un maestro costumista. Per creare le sue maschere, gli basta magari una trovata da niente; a volte, per travestire le cose, sostituisce semplicemente una parola con un'altra... E la coscienza si aggira in questo gioco bizzarro come uno straniero a un ballo mascherato, fra i fumi del vino.

If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains