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Quotes About Wine

My third glass of a night is blue, Alessan said. The third glass I drink is always of blue wine. In memory of something lost. Lest on any single night I forget what it is I am alive to do.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
To say I had a hangover next morning would be failing even to hint at the utter disintegration of my bodily economy and personality. Only somebody who had consumed two or three quarts of assorted home made wines at a sitting could have an inkling of the quaking nausea, the raging inferno within, the jangling nerves, the black despairing outlook.
~ James Herriot
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
~ James Joyce
If anyone thinks that I amn't divine He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine But have to drink water and wish it were plain That I make when the wine becomes water again.
~ James Joyce
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?
~ James Joyce
I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown. - Give it a name, citizen, says Joe. - Wine of the country, says he. - What's yours? says Joe. - Ditto MacAnaspey, says I. - Three pints, Terry, says Joe. And how's the old heart, citizen? says he.
~ James Joyce
Tides, myriadislanded, within her, blood not mine, _oinopa ponton_, a winedark sea.
~ James Joyce
Dac? cineva-È™i închipuie c? nu sunt divin Nu-i mai dau de b?ut când mai fac vin, Ap? s? bea, dar s? È™tie c? nu-i ap? chioar?, Ci-i apa pe care o fac eu când d? vinul din mine afar?.
~ James Joyce
Epi oinopa ponton.
~ James Joyce
I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen.
~ Jim Carrey
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.
~ Andre Maurois
Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.
~ Michael Wilbon
He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Miracle woman ... Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness.
~ Donald Evans
Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?
~ John Gay
Even choosing the perfect dinner wine loses its earth-shattering importance if your guests happen to be cannibals, and you, the unsuspecting entree.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
~ Thomas Fuller
I have lived temperately . . . I double the doctors recommendation of a glass and a half of wine a day and even treble it with a friend.
~ Thomas Jefferson
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.
~ Thomas Jefferson
By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.
~ Thomas Jefferson
What though youth gave love and roses,Age still leaves us friends and wine.
~ Thomas Moore
I within did flowWith seas of life like wine.
~ Thomas Traherne
But one look at the business of champagne tells a very different tale. In the boardrooms and wine cellars, champagne is a man's world. Today, there are only a handful of women in senior positions in the French wine industry, and only one of the elite and internationally renowned champagne houses known as the grandes marques is run by a woman—the house of Champagne Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, headed since 2001 by Madame Cécile Bonnefond.
~ Tilar J. Mazzeo