140 Wine Lovers Quotes

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Famous Wine Lovers Quotes

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. — Salvador Dali

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

Good wine must drink together with a good friend. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. — Robert Mondavi

Wine is bottled poetry. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. — Clifton Fadiman

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. — Clifton Paul Fadiman

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies. — Raymond E. Feist

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

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon

In wine, there's truth. — Pliny The Elder

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine. — Karl Marx

Wine is poetry in a bottle. — Clifton Fadiman

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets — Salvador Dali

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. — Diogenes

Wine And Love Quotes

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! — Leo Buscaglia

Wine lovers quote The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, he
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Wine lovers quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W. C. Fields

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

I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. — Kathy Mattea

Wine Tasting Quotes

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting. — Andrea Illy

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! — Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Wine lovers quote If two past lovers cannot remain friends, either they are still in love or never were
If two past lovers cannot remain friends, either they are still in love or never were

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. — Charles Baudelaire

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

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate. — Gina Barreca

Wine lovers quote The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, heal
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water. — Hakim Bey

The older I get, the better I was. — Van Dyke Parks

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. — Charlotte Bronte

Great Wine Quotes

What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death. — Francis of Assisi

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

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming

Wine lovers quote Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be
Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach

The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. — Clifton Fadiman

Wine lovers quote Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.  They're in each other all along.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone. — Rumi

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine. — Naomi Watts

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

Life is too short to drink bad wine. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wine Country Quotes

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. — Hans Rosling

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey — Blake Shelton

Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. — Oliver Cromwell

Wine lovers quote Give a man a bottle of wine, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to make wine, he'll always have lots o
Give a man a bottle of wine, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to make wine, he'll always have lots of friends

I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws. — Louis Agassiz

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. — Edmund Burke

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Wine lovers quote The best relationship is when you can act like loves and best friends at the same time.
The best relationship is when you can act like loves and best friends at the same time.

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

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region. — Paracelsus

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open. — Robin Williams

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own. — Jeff Gordon

Good Wine Quotes

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. - Thomas Aquinas

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. — Thomas Aquinas

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

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

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — M. F. K. Fisher

Wine lovers quote In wine, there's truth.
In wine, there's truth.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. — Washington Irving

Red wine makes good blood. — Italian Proverbs

It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods. — Maimonides

Wine lovers quote All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something. — Maya Angelou

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up. — Denise Richards

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! — Hilaire Belloc

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle. — Joe Bob Briggs

Drinking Wine Quotes

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. — Omar Khayyam

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. - Sophia Loren

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. — Sophia Loren

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. — Francis Bacon

Wine lovers quote Coffee keeps me busy until it is acceptable to drink wine
Coffee keeps me busy until it is acceptable to drink wine

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine? — John Keats

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. — Anthony Bourdain

The rabbi drinks the wine and asks the others to be happy. — Yiddish Proverbs

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine? — Jami Attenberg

When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm 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

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it. — Frank Muir

Wine Bottle Quotes

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. - Charles Baudelaire

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. — Charles Baudelaire

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. — Kevin J. Anderson

New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles. — Heinz Guderian

The man shows a pig leg; the woman shows a bottle of wine. — Vietnamese Proverbs

They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type. — Erik Spiekermann

Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge. — Hester Browne

I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.' — Gerald Asher

You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one. — Len Evans

I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. — Virginia Madsen

Women And Wine Quotes

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

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

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run. — Michael Weatherly

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? — Martin Luther

Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women. — David Berlinski

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great — Benjamin Franklin

The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery. — Joseph Haydn

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic . — Charles Sanders Peirce

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. — Ernest Hemingway

Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world! — Ravinder Singh

Wine And Friends Quotes

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life. — Adam Gopnik

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage. — Jacques Pepin

Old friends and old wine are the best. — Russian Proverbs

Old wine and friends improve with age. — Italian Proverbs

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

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

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament. — Sally Quinn

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine — Thomas More

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell. — Omar Khayyam

Bottles Of Wine Quotes

I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other. — Gerald Asher

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

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

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. — Chinese Proverbs

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. — Andrea Dworkin

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad

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

I'll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful. — Paul Gascoigne

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet. — Ellen Hopkins

A bottle of wine was good company. — Ernest Hemingway

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More Wine Lovers Quotes

Wine is sunlight, held together by water. — Galileo Galilei

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance. — Benjamin Franklin

A meal without wine is like a day without sun — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted. — Anthony Capella

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria. — Clifton Fadiman

The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood. — Bill Oberst Jr.

Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers. — Jennifer Rosen

A timely, interesting, educational approach to today's wine picture. Wine still makes a feast out of a meal, but in times of not so plenty we will enjoy a bottle that is more reasonable. This tome is a must-read for wine lovers as well as the trade. — Margrit Mondavi

Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life. — Marvin Shanken

Wine lets no lover unrewarded go. — Alexander Pope

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine. — Yoshida Kenko

May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night. — Rumi

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

Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind. When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one. — Rumi

Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long. — Shirley Jackson

We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish. — Francesca Lia Block

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