Quotes on Food And Wine

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

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

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

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

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.