Quotes on Wine

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the nightmilk of fantasy.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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

Love is the wine of existence.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.