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Quotes About Wine

I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.
~ Kristin Hannah
I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be. All along the Seine, street lamps come on, apartment windows turn golden. "It's seven," Julien says, and I realize that he has been keeping time all along, waiting. He is so American. No sitting idle, forgetting oneself, not for this young man of mine.
~ Kristin Hannah
He swept the ears to the floor with his arm and held the last of his wine in the air. Something for your poetry, no? he said. Some of the ears on the floor caught this scrap of his voice. Some of the ears on the floor were pressed to the ground.
~ Carolyn Forché
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.
~ George Gordon Byron
For singing till his heaven fills,'Tis love of earth that he instills,And ever winging up and up,Our valley is his golden cup,And he the wine which over flowsTo lift us with him as he goes.
~ George Meredith
The Lord of Light wants his enemies burnt. The Drowned God wants his enemies drowned. Why are all the gods such vicious cunts? Where is the god of tits and wine?
~ George R. R. Martin
How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?" "In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty," he replied.
~ George R.R. Martin
Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother.
~ George R.R. Martin
I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it." "You drank the wine?" "It's an awful thing to find a brother dead. You'd have need of a drink as well, Lord Snow.
~ George R.R. Martin
They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.
~ George R.R. Martin
The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. "And what am I to do there?" "Rule," his father said curtly.
~ George R.R. Martin
My life was writ in red, in blood and wine.
~ George R.R. Martin
We shall serve him lies and Arbor gold, and he'll drink them down and ask for more.
~ George R.R. Martin
A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine.
~ George R.R. Martin
There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk. I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it.
~ George R.R. Martin
White is for Starks. I'll drink red like a good Lannister.
~ George R.R. Martin
Tyrion seated himself and took a sip of wine. "If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him. I have seen dead men with more humor than your Ser Alliser.
~ George R.R. Martin
It's sad. He likes it where the wine is, and the smiles.
~ George R.R. Martin
We'll have music, such sweet music, and wine, heh, the red will run, and we'll put some wrongs aright.
~ George R.R. Martin
Water? Fuck your water. Bring me wine.
~ George R.R. Martin
Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.
~ GERALD ASHER
One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.
~ GERALD ASHER
So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine...like the blood of a dragon and smooth as a fish...
~ Gerald Durrell
What a wine … like the blood of a dragon and as smooth as a fish … What a wine! When I came back the air was full of sleep, so here I am.
~ Gerald Durrell