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Quotes About Wine

Mums are allowed to smell of wine when they're sort of on holiday.
~ Jojo Moyes
Psychic." "Thirty pounds a ticket, they're paying, to sit there with a glass of cheap white wine and shout, "Yes!" when someone asks did someone in the audience have a relative whose name began with J.
~ Jojo Moyes
Es grib?ju v?nu, vair?kas lielas gl?zes, kas pal?dz?tu man sa?emties un neskat?ties atpaka?. Vai ar? visp?r nekur neskat?ties.
~ Jojo Moyes
Was that the boss you were talking about? That man today?' The wine was delicious. I took another sip. I hadn't dared drink while Lily had been with me: I might have let my guard down. 'Yup.' 'I know the type. If it's any consolation, within five years he'll either have a stomach ulcer or enough hypertension to cause erectile dysfunction.' I laughed. 'Both those thoughts are oddly comforting.
~ Jojo Moyes
Tweeds, he soon found, are not in warm weather the ideal clothes for mountain climbing, for that was what his progress soon became. The track grew almost precipitous and he was still further hindered by the loose surface and his package of food and wine. He had been climbing for half an hour when he stopped, ate his lunch, drank his wine and smoked a pipe. Some forty minutes later, much refreshed and free of encumbrance, he continued the ascent in better style.
~ Eric Ambler
Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
~ beecher henry ward xv
Now I was used to it, the bell-like silence was louder than ever, and I was starting to get undertones of orange blossom and incense. You have to be careful with this stuff or you begin to sound like a wine taster—with about the same amount of meaningless bollocks.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Das Leben ist zu kurz, um schlechten Wein zu trinken. - Quoted from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ Ben Aaronovitch
But as the wise man said, life's too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Wine is constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
~ Ben Franklin
Drink to me only with thin eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I will not look for wine
~ Ben Jonson
[L]eave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
~ Ben Jonson
Drink to me only with thine eyes,And I will pledge with mine;Or leave a kiss but in the cupAnd I'll not look for wine.The thirst that from the soul doth riseDoth ask a drink divine;But might I of Jove's nectar sup,I would not change for thine.
~ Ben Jonson
I wouldn't have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra
~ Ben Mitchell
In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime
~ Ben Sidran
The ages crumble down like dust, Dark roses, deviously thrust And scattered in sweet wine -- but I, I shall lift up to you my cry, And kiss your wet lips presently Beneath the ever-living Tree.
~ benet stephen vincent iii
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the wealth small and the want great.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich because her outgoes are greater than her incomes. Women and wine, game and deceit make the wealth small and the wants great.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The Court had a rule that it would indulge in wine-drinking only if it were raining. Marshall would look out the window on a sunny day and decide that wine-drinking was permissible since "our jurisdiction extends over so large a territory that the doctrine of chances makes it certain that it must be raining somewhere."11
~ Gordon S. Wood
At first Madison was shy but Mrs. Todd soon warmed him up, filled his glass again and again with my best claret.
~ Gore Vidal
No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.
~ Graham Greene