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Wine Quotes

My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

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.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.