Quotes on Drinking Wine

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

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.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.