Wine Quotes

Truth comes out in wine.

~ Pliny The Elder

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

~ Fran Lebowitz

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

~ Patrick Macgill

I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.

~ Wylie Dufresne

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

~ Carol Alt

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

~ Plautus

You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.

~ Kristan Higgins

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

~ Douglas William Jerrold

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

~ Aldous Huxley

Beauty is often worse than wine intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

~ John Zimmerman

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

~ Rose Kennedy

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

~ Samuel Johnson

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.

~ Guy Davenport

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

~ Charles Dickens

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

~ Edward Young

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

~ George Herbert

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

~ M. J. Rose

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.

~ Gary Vaynerchuk

My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

~ Gary Vaynerchuk

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

~ Charles Baudelaire

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

~ Alice Mcdermott

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