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Wine Quotes "Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art." --- Robert Mondavi "I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink; that’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for." --- W. C. Fields "When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking." --- Alexis Lichine "Wine is the most civilized thing in the world." --- Ernest Hemingway "Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures."--- Michael Broadbent "Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." --- Pope John XXIII "I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." --- W. C. Fields "Wine is life." --- Petronius "I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." --- Oliver Goldsmith "Wine … offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased." --- Ernest Hemingway "A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect" --- Robert Louis Stevenson "Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure." --- Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 9:10 “A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.” --- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory, but so are those of the ballet or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.” --- Napoleon “There are many wines that taste great, but do not drink well.” --- Michael Broadbent “Twas Noah who first planted the vine and mended his morals by drinking its wine.” --- Benjamin Franklin "Presenting the cork is wine nonsense, a ritual invented by captains and sommeliers. The wine snob doesn’t resent ritual. There is infinite ritual in the etiquette of serving wine. But most of it at least hints at style or purpose. Placing an unsightly cork on the tablecloth hints at absurdity." --- Leonard S. Bernstein “She gets to keep the chalet and the Rolls, I want the Montrachet.” --- Anonymous, Forbes Magazine, May 6, 1996 "Hardly did it appear, than from my mouth it passed into my heart.” -- Abbe de Challieu “What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?” --- W.C. Fields “The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the vine.” --- Thucydides “We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.” --- Thomas Jefferson "Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night. --- Charles Baudelaire "I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself." --- Voltaire "If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul." --- Clifton Fadiman "And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile." --- Alexander Pope "My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne." --- John Maynard Keynes "Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil." --- Lord Byron "Life is too short to drink bad wine." --- Anonymous "Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin." --- Napoleon "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 "Compromises are for relationships, not wine." --- Sir Robert Scott Caywood "In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary." --- Ernest Hemingway "For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red." --- Psalms 75:8 “Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.” --- Cyril Connolly "Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it." --- Anonymous "Beer is made by men, wine by God!" --- Martin Luther "A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover." --- Clifton Fadiman "I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember, I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles." --- Bishop of Seville "Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized." --- André Simon "Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues" --- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days." --- W.C. Fields “I can certainly see you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn’t know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.” --- John Cleese “In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.” --- Franklin P. Adams “This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.” --- Count Mippipopolous in The Sun Also Rises, 1926, by Ernest Hemingway “Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.” --- Julia Child “When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” --- Aristophanes "Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne." --- Paul Claudel "Wine... the intellectual part of the meal." --- Alexandre Dumas "No nation is druken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage" --- Thomas Jefferson "Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher." --- Evelyn Waugh "Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe,
we may as well drink a glass of Champagne." --- Paul Claudel "Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him
more pleasing to others." --- Samuel Johnson "Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile."--- Homer "When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing."--- Ovid, "The Art of Love" "Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts." --- John Stuart Blackie "Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious."
--- Lord Byron
"Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man." --- Ambrose Bierce "Come quickly! I am tasting stars!" --- Dom Perignon "French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven."
--- James Howell "We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
--- Ben Franklin "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more."
--- Proverbs 31:6-7: "[Wine is] poetry in a bottle." --- Clifton Fadiman
"Wine is made to be drunk as women are made to be loved; profit by the freshness of youth or the splendor of maturity; do not await decrepitude."--- Theophile Malvezin "There can be no bargain without wine." --- Latin saying "Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right." ---Mark Twain
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