Drinking Wine Quotes

Twas Noah who first planted the vine
And mended his morals by drinking its wine. — Benjamin Franklin

The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves. — Paul-Emile Victor

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question. — Joseph Epstein

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

Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad. — William Nicholson

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

She'd been drinking jug wine steadily for four hours. — Jonathan Franzen

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool. — Neel Burton

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. — W.C. Fields

I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice. — Tom Araya

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer. — George Bernard Shaw

Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning. — Sarah Addison Allen

BALLS! We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them HERE, and we want them NOW. — Bruce Robinson

A woman's place is in the kitchen ... sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. — Elizabeth Gilbert

TIP: Adding a splash of the wine you're drinking to the sauce can build a bridge between the food and the wine. — Andrew Dornenburg

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing. — Jack Kerouac

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary ... — 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. — Ernest Hemingway,

People should have fun with wine. A bottle should sit on your dinner table like all of the other condiments. — Andre Hueston Mack

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures — Kent Bach

Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life. — Charles Dickens

I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and a** out for no one. — Adele

People don't want to think about defects when they are drinking wine. — Courtney Maum

He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar. — Ken Follett

Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka. — Viktor Chernomyrdin

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later. — Frank J. Prial

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs. — Ross Macdonald

Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience? — Jamie Goode

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more. — Mario Puzo

What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. - from Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke — Kate Bernheimer

I Never Met A Malbec I Didn't Like — Michael C. Higgins, PhD

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

And what do you say of lovers of wine ... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine — Plato

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell. — Brandon Sanderson

When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking. — Alexis Lichine

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way. — Mariel Hemingway

Any date that ended with two people drinking wine near a fire also ended with a woman's thong being thrown across the room. — Karina Halle

You can't understand how wine is made simply by drinking lots of it. — Richard Sennett

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine. — Julia Child

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor. — Clifton Fadiman

I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine. — Joaquin Miller

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Wine is not a magic serum of truth. It just silences that smart little voice in your head which advises against saying some dumb shit. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label. — Mark Twain

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes. — Lou Holtz

Come quickly, I'm drinking stars. — Dom Perignon

I am drinking the stars — Dom Perignon

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

Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it. — Madame De Pompadour

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls. — Charles Bukowski

You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine. — Elvis Costello

To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne. — James A. Michener

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. — Jonathan Lethem

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it. — Alan Kay

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. — Louis Pasteur

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031] — Benjamin Franklin

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and ... talking about — Edward VII

Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good. — Emile Augier

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel. — Simon R. Green

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food. — Francis Ford Coppola

When the wine is in, the wit is out. — Thomas Becon

People spend too much time tasting wine; not enough time drinking it. — Andre Tchelistcheff

God has given us a dark wine so potent that, drinking it, we leave the two worlds. — Rumi

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

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry ... I get so emotional! I love champagne. — Tina Turner

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

While we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind. — Roger Scruton

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

The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking — Alexis Lichine

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills — Homer

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. — Benjamin Franklin

His lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine — E. E. Cummings

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing ... — Hiroko Sakai

Drinking wine, like kissing, is most memorable when done with someone else. — Paul Kreider

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise. — Miguel De Cervantes

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife — Scott Lynch

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow. — Jonathan Tucker