Quotes about Wine

He must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

Into the wide stream came of purple hue— 'Twas Bacchus and his crew! The earnest trumpet spake, and silver thrills From kissing cymbals made a merry din— 200 'Twas Bacchus and his kin!

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.

To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough — more than enough, I should imagine.

A lamplit table spread Old hospitality Of cheese and wine and bread. - 1993 V Remembering Evia

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

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