Wine Quotes
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![Charles Baudelaire](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1652257436i/13847._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Paris Spleen
― Paris Spleen
![Paulo Coelho](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201840056i/566._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Brida
― Brida
![John Keats](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198548090i/11978._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
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![Ernest Hemingway](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446435i/1455._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
![Colette Gauthier-Villars](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1676070264i/51575._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”
― Œuvres complètes
― Œuvres complètes
![William Shakespeare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446514i/947._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It
![Oliver Goldsmith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234787093i/65124._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
― The Vicar of Wakefield
― The Vicar of Wakefield
![Megan Whalen Turner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1489507023i/22542._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.”
― The King of Attolia
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.”
― The King of Attolia
![Francis Bacon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397100712i/50964._UX200_CR0,64,200,200_.jpg)
“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”
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![Christopher Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434046956i/3956._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
![Scott Lynch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1332432746i/73149._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
![Homer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651844975i/903._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”
― The Odyssey
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”
― The Odyssey
![Russell Brand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429657779i/884168._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
![Mikhail Bulgakov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651627966i/3873._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
![W.B. Yeats](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440689155i/29963._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
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Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
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![Rachel Hawkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1442494376i/2261547._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.”
― Hex Hall
― Hex Hall
![Julie Kagawa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1257816454i/2995873._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“How very like you, Puck.” Ash’s voice came from a great distance, and the room started to spin. “Offer them a taste of faery wine, and act surprised when they’re consumed by it.”
That struck me as hilarious, and I broke into hysterical giggles. And once I began, I couldn’t stop. I laughed until I was gasping for breath, tears streaming down my face. My feet itched and my skin crawled. I needed to move, to do something. I tried standing up, wanting to spin and dance, but the room tilted violently and I fell, still shrieking with laughter.
Somebody caught me, scooping me off my feet and into their arms. I smelled frost and winter, and heard an exasperated sigh from somewhere above my head.
“What are you doing, Ash?” I heard someone ask. A familiar voice, though I couldn’t think of his name, or why he sounded so suspicious.
“I’m taking her back to her room.” The person above me sounded wonderfully calm and deep. I sighed and settled into his arms. “She’ll have to sleep off the effects of the fruit. We’ll likely be here another day because of your idiocy.”
The other voice said something garbled and unintelligible. I was suddenly too sleepy and light-headed to care. Relaxing against the mysterious person’s chest, I fell into a heady sleep.”
― The Iron King
That struck me as hilarious, and I broke into hysterical giggles. And once I began, I couldn’t stop. I laughed until I was gasping for breath, tears streaming down my face. My feet itched and my skin crawled. I needed to move, to do something. I tried standing up, wanting to spin and dance, but the room tilted violently and I fell, still shrieking with laughter.
Somebody caught me, scooping me off my feet and into their arms. I smelled frost and winter, and heard an exasperated sigh from somewhere above my head.
“What are you doing, Ash?” I heard someone ask. A familiar voice, though I couldn’t think of his name, or why he sounded so suspicious.
“I’m taking her back to her room.” The person above me sounded wonderfully calm and deep. I sighed and settled into his arms. “She’ll have to sleep off the effects of the fruit. We’ll likely be here another day because of your idiocy.”
The other voice said something garbled and unintelligible. I was suddenly too sleepy and light-headed to care. Relaxing against the mysterious person’s chest, I fell into a heady sleep.”
― The Iron King
![Barbara Crooker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1442466410i/388882._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color. ("Ode to Chocolate")”
― More
― More
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong."
However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.”
― Dives and Pauper
However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.”
― Dives and Pauper
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