Jonathan Nossiter quotes

Jonathan Nossiter quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Buying wine is a political act.”
-- Jonathan Nossiter

#Wine Quotes #Political Quotes #Buying Quotes

“It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
“Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1882). “The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse”
“Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”
“Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.”
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”

Source : The New Yorker, en.wikiquote.org. April 7, 1956.
“I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.”
“The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.”
“There's no buying a greasy breakfast in L.A. - it's all organic juices.”
“Buying art is not understanding art.”

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