Wine Words Wednesday

This wine is doo good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You loose all the taste.
~ Ernest Hemingway, the Sun Also Rises

Aunt Melly’s quite right. But she was talking about spirits, not wine. You must learn to drink wine like a gentleman won, and there’s no time like the present to learn.
~Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind

Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.
~Brutus, Julius Cesar by William Shakespear

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life.
~Julia Child

Every time I open a bottle of wine, its an amazing trip somewhere.
~Josê Andrés

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

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like liquified beefsteak.
~James Joyce

Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism.
~Kathrine Cole

In wine there is wisdome, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.
~Maybe Benjamin Franklin, Maybe Pliny

The best wines are the ones we drink with friends.
~Anonymous

Wine is bottled poetry.
~Robert Lewis Stevenson, Silverado Squatters

Civilization begens with distillation.
~William Faulkner

They are not long, these days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream our path emerges for a while, then closes within a dream.
~Ernest Dowson

Wine is fun. It has nothing to do with ego.
~Aldo Sohm

Smile, there’s wine!
~Anonymous

Wine is just a conversation starter waiting to happen.
~Anonymous

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

There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each man’s own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any clightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.
~Mark Twain

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
~Aristophanes

As long as we have wine the holidays will be fine.
~Anonomyous

Wine is a grocery, not a luxury.
~Richard Betts

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
~Paracelsus

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
~WC Fields

I never dine without wine, sir.
~Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
~Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it’s a celebration… Every time you sip it, you’re sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.
~David Leviathan

In vino veritas. (In wine there is truth.)
~Plato & Others

In Europe then 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. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication no a culd; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
~Ernest Hemingway, A Movable Feast

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

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.
~Hafez as translated by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I drink it when I’m happy and when im sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it when I’m not hungary and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it unless I’m thirsty.
~Lilly Bollinger

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking. Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance. Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
~Benjamin Franklin, Writing as Richard Saunders in Poor Richars’s Almanack

Italian wine is like Italian politics. It’s complicated, barely understood by the rest of the world, and often breaks its own rules. It’s also delicious and diverse.
~Unknown

Anyone who starts analyzing the taste of a rosé in public should be thrown into the pool immediately.
~Jay McInerney

Wine, it’s in my beins and I can’t get it out.
~Burgess Meredith

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
~Galileo

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

Champagne’s real place is not at a dinner, but at a ball. A cavalier may appropriately offer, at propitious intervals, a glass now and then to his danceress. There, it takes its fitting rank and position amongst feathers, gauzes, lace, embroidery, ribbons, white satin shoes, and eau de Cologne. It is simply one of the elegant extras of life.
~Charles Dickens

Pinot Noir is like opera. When it’s great, it’s pure seduction, almost hedonistic. There is no middle road.
~Peter Finlayson

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

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