Edward VII quotes
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“One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.”
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“I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.”
-- Edward VII -
“You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.”
-- Edward VII -
“I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.”
-- Edward VII -
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“I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.”
-- Edward VIISource : To Sir Frederick Ponsonby, who had proposed to accompany him in a tail-coat, in Sir Philip Magnus 'Edward VII' (1964) ch. 19
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“No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.”
-- Edward VII -
“Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about”
-- Edward VII -
“There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.”
-- Edward VII -
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“Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ...And one drinks it.”
-- Edward VII
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“The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.”
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“A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.”
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Source : Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”
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“Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance”
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan
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“A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.”
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“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.”
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