Wine Quotes

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

~ Sarah Bernhardt

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

~ M. J. Rose

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

~ Samuel Lover

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

~ Amy Smart

I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

~ Nene Leakes

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

~ Carl Jung

I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.

~ Joshua Bell

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

~ Joseph Conrad

I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.

~ Joshua Ostrander

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

~ Pope John Xxiii

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

~ Colin Powell

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

~ Joan Collins

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.

~ Jenny Lewis

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

~ Maya Angelou

With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a glass of wine and then do it later,' but when you've finally got a child to bed and you know you've only got an hour, then you achieve so much.

~ Lesley Manville

To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.

~ Meir Soloveichik

Wine is bottled poetry.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We are delightfully trapped by our memories. I can't drink a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieux Telegraphe without revisiting a hotel bistro in Luzerne, Switzerland, where I ate a large bowl of a peppery Basque baby goat stew. A sip and a bite. A bite and sip. Goose bumps come with the divine conjunction of food and wine.

~ Jim Harrison

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

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

~ Robert Mondavi

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

~ M. F. K. Fisher

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

~ Kenneth Cranham

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

~ Mario Lemieux

Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.

~ Victoria Pendleton

I love France. It's got the sun down at the bottom, the Alps for skiing, and all that wine and food.

~ Paul Hollywood

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

~ Ted Allen

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

~ Robert Mondavi

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

~ Charles Baudelaire

I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.

~ Christian Louboutin

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

~ Ronnie Hawkins

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

~ Thomas Aquinas

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

~ Diogenes

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

~ Clifton Fadiman

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

~ Oliver Reed

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

~ Alanis Morissette

Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasn't that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.

~ Christian Mckay