Drinking Wine Quotes:

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

- Francis Ford Coppola

topic: Drinking, Wine, Eating, Drinking Wine

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

- Louis Pasteur

source: "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs, 2004.

topic: Funny, Philosophy, Drinking, Drinking Wine, Great Wine

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, Used, Familiar, Vineyards, Wine And Friends

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2008). “Richard III”, p.124, Palgrave Macmillan

topic: Cheer, Wine, Giving, Alacrity, Wine And Friends

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, Men, Names, Alcoholism, Intemperance

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

- John Milton

topic: Dream, Drinking, Alcohol, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Mother, Heart, Wine, Fine Wine, Wine And Age

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

- Thucydides

topic: Wine, Vines, Olives, Old Wine, Drinking Wine

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Love, Eye, Wine, Old Wine, Wine And Love

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Food, Drinking, Men, Alcoholism, Irish Beer

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

- Thomas Love Peacock

topic: Drinking, Wine, Two, Drinking Wine

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

- Mark Twain

topic: Alcohol, Too Much, Whiskey, Scotch Whisky, Whisky

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Wine, Trying, Wine And Life, Wine Lovers

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

- Michael Broadbent

source: Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Drinking, Wine, Good Company, Vineyards, Best Wine

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Appreciation, Wine, Civilization, Best Wine, Old Wine

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Mistake, Food, Wine, Vineyards, Old Wine

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Drinking, Wine, Too Much, Scotch Whisky, Whisky

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, Men, Laughing, Wine And Friends, Wine Making

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Wine, Intelligent, Light, Old Wine, Drinking Wine

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

topic: Food, Wine, Cooking, Moveable Feast, Fine Wine

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

- Graham Greene

topic: Truth, Lying, Wine, Best Wine, Liquor Funny

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

topic: Wine, Meals, Sun, Italian Proverb, Best Wine

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

- Ovid

topic: Passion, Wine, Men, Old Wine, Wine And Love

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

- Samuel Johnson

source: In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

topic: Drinking, Food, Hero, Drinking Wine, Brandy

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

topic: Wine, Alcohol, Beverages, Sommelier, Best Wine

The older I get, the better I used to be.

- Lee Trevino

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Golf, Used, Best Wine, Cabernet, Wine And Life

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

topic: Wine, Water, Tea, Vineyards, Women And Wine

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Regret, Food, Wine, Vineyards, Sparkling

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

- Winston Churchill

topic: Drinking, Fighting, Gentleman, Food And Wine, Wine Toast

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

- John Cleese

topic: Wine, Differences, Guests, Wine And Age, Chardonnay

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Wine, Thinking, Luxury, Best Wine, Women And Wine

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

- Henry Aldrich

source: 'Reasons for Drinking'

topic: Drinking, Wine, Thinking, Wine And Friends, Wine With Friends

The older I get, the better I was.

- Van Dyke Parks

topic: Vineyards, Cabernet, Wine And Life, Wine Lovers, Food And Wine

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

topic: Clever, Wine, Successful, Vineyards, Old Wine

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Appreciation, Wine, May, Vineyards, Best Wine

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Sorry, People, Feels, Sorry Men, Praiseworthy

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

- Sean Connery

topic: Girl, Drinking, Wine, James Bond Movie, Champagne Drinking

One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

- Edward VII

topic: Wine, Smell, Taste, Wine And Age, Drinking Wine

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

- Cardinal Richelieu

topic: Drinking, Wine, Made, Wine Making, Wine Toast

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

- Horace

topic: Food, Long, Water, Liquor Funny, Drinkers

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Fall, Wine, I Pray, Wine And Friends

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

- Ben Jonson

source: "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).

topic: Romantic, Eye, Wine, Pledge, Best Wine

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Cheer, Drinking, Beer, Brewing, Malt

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

- Kinky Friedman

topic: Beauty, Philosophy, Eye, Alcoholism, Irish Beer

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Country, Wine, Debt, Wine Making, Drinking Wine

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

topic: Wine, Glasses, Gentleman, Vineyards, Little Moments

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

- Kenny Chesney

source: Song: Summertime, Album: The Road And The Radio, 2005

topic: Summer, Wine, Kissing, Summer Is Coming, Summer Love

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

- Don Johnson

topic: Wine, Cigar, Drink, Life's Too Short, Vineyards