White Wine Quotes:

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

- Bette Davis

topic: Wine, Mean, White, Never Trust Anyone, White Wine

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.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Strong, Food, Wine, Moveable Feast, Metallic

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

- James Joyce

topic: Wine, White, Taste, Old Wine, White Wine

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

- William Shenstone

source: William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.124

topic: Wine, Power, White, White Wine

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.

- John Webster

source: 'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2

topic: Wine, Soldier, Vineyards, Linen, Old Soldiers

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

- John Masefield

source: 'Cargoes' (1903)

topic: Sweet, Home, Wine, White Wine, Cargo

Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

- Karen MacNeil

source: Karen MacNeil (2015). “The Wine Bible”, p.227, Workman Publishing

topic: Wine, White, Red, White Wine

Earlier this week Donald Trump gave an interview with CNN at a winery he owns in Virginia. It turns out Trump's winery makes two different kinds of wine: white wine and not-white wine.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Wine, Virginia, Two, White Wine

I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.

- Lars von Trier

topic: Wine, School, White, Nudists, White Wine

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

- Oliver Reed

topic: Drinking, Wine, White, White Wine

Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.

- Cate Marvin

source: Source: www.redividerjournal.org

topic: Real, Wine, Beer, Dismay, White Wine

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Wine, White, Very Good, White Wine

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

- Julia Child

topic: Wine, White, Beef, Gin, White Wine

To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

- Elizabeth Bowen

source: Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.58, Random House

topic: Wine, Air, Rome, White Wine

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

- Jim Himes

topic: Wine, Beer, Oysters, White Wine, Clams

For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.

- Richard Avedon

topic: Children, Wine, Night, White Wine, Sitting Quietly

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

- Henri Murger

source: Henri Murger (1899). “Bohemian Life”

topic: Wine, White, Red, White Wine, Don't Talk To Me

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

- David Denby

topic: Wine, Class, White, White Wine, Arugula

My favorite to cook is this recipe I've been making since I was 12 years old with my mom, and it's an angel hair shrimp pasta with tomatoes, feta, garlic, white wine - it's so easy but so fresh and so delicious!

- Devon Windsor

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Mom, Wine, Angel, White Wine

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

- Charlie Trotter

topic: Wine, White, People, Menus, White Wine

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Wine, Oysters, White, White Wine, Housekeepers

Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white.

- Kevin Zraly

topic: Wine, White, Pinot Noir, White Wine, Chardonnay

Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we?

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Halloween, Wine, White, Skittles, White Wine

Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Wine, White, Great Day, St Patrick's Day, White Wine

Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

- Bette Davis

topic: Hate, Fall, Wine, Never Trust Anyone, White Wine

I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Wine, White, Firsts, White Wine

Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Drinking, Wine, White, White Wine, Red Wine

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

- Russell Baker

topic: Wine, Nursing, Glasses, Newspaper Reporters, White Wine

I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.

- Charles Bowden

source: "Bad Luck on an Otherwise Fine Night" by Chuck Bowden, www.esquire.com. September 5, 2014.

topic: Believe, Flower, Wine, Salsa, White Wine

It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Drinking, Wine, Cooking Dinner, White Wine, Wine Glass

Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in the end, they're all rather similar and while eating them while sipping white wine makes you feel posher than if you'd bought the bog-standard ones, afterwards you don't remember very much about them.

- Suhayl Saadi

topic: Wine, Hands, White, White Wine, Bogs

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then ***** under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

- Will Self

topic: Team, Party, Drinking, White Wine, Christmas Party

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

- Scott Eastwood

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Wine, Beer, White, White Wine

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

- Julia Child

topic: Wine, Ducks, White, White Wine