Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.
— Omar Khayyam
Competitive Red Wine quotations
I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine.
... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.
This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place.
A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.
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.
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.
The green earth sends her incense up.
From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop.
It's like a good red wine Give it time.
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.
I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.
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.
A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.
I Love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire.
Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.
If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.
Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
I've got different ideas of complete happiness.
But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.
I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.
It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red 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.
Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.
I love that red wine is good for you.
Isn't that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things in life like, Red wine, in conjunction with a lap dance, while watching NFL football, is the best cardiovascular workout you can have.
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?