Wine Quotes - page 4

The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it. (Stephen Crane)
Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... I knew such lovely pictures. View quote
Anthony Burgess
You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter. View quote
David Gemmell
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. View quote
André Maurois
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. View quote
John Webster
You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk. View quote
Alphonse Daudet
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
A bottle of wine was good company. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ. (Ernest Hemingway)
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity. View quote
Sara Teasdale
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna. View quote
Athenaeus
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars. View quote
Don Johnson
By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine. View quote
Saki
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. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. (Franco Nero)
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. View quote
Thomas Moore
20. You cannot know wine by the barrell. View quote
George Herbert
136. Old wine and an old friend are good provisions. View quote
George Herbert
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? View quote
John Gay