Wine Quotes

"I would pour you a glass of wine, but wouldn’t it be more romantic if you sipped it out of my armpit?"

Jarod Kintz

"Beer has that Olympic medal color,” Rot replied, “but does it have a winning taste? I’d hardly call silver a champion flavor. No, I’ll stick to my red wine."

Jarod Kintz

"I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine."

Jarod Kintz

"I can hold my alcohol, just like I’m a wine bottle. I dance as fluid as glass, and my heart shatters just as easily."

Jarod Kintz

"At church, during communion, they give out free wine. Whoa! Talk about a great place to drink and meet women."

Jarod Kintz

"She likes her wine white, and that’s how I like my clam chowder. So chuggable!"

Jarod Kintz

"I let wine breathe. And I hold my breathe, so it can get all the air."

Jarod Kintz

"A raisin on the ground is full of hope that if it just keeps aging, it will turn into wine and get drunk on its wrinkly self."

Jarod Kintz

"I like grape juice. Fermented grape juice—wine. It’s the drink of choice for champions. I know because I asked a bunch of winners."

Jarod Kintz

"I can sell you wine and I can sell you flowers, but I can't sell you romance, because that comes from your heart, and it's free."

Jarod Kintz

"I’ll finish the bottle of wine, while you finish what you were saying about how good it is. If you waste no words, I’ll waste no time."

Jarod Kintz

"If I could convert books to wine, I’d start with The Grapes of Wrath. I’ve never read it, but maybe tonight I’ll be thirsty enough."

Jarod Kintz

"Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!"

Jack Kerouac

"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?"I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations."

C. JoyBell C.

"Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages."

Louis Pasteur

"Wine enters through the mouth,Love, the eyes.I raise the glass to my mouth,I look at you,I sigh."

W.B. Yeats

"Some people say, "What difference does it make what color the winemaker is that made the wine? Judge the wines off their own merit." Like, of course. And I do believe that my wine is judged off its own merit. But the fact is that when you walk into places and people can't believe that you're the principal or you're the owner or you made the wine, it's mind-blowing to me some days. It's like, wow. That's why we need to continue talking about it."

Andre Hueston Mack

"We’ve all been in positions where we felt out of place or not accepted for whatever reason. For me, that’s been my life. I’ve always been that person that stood out. And what makes you an outcast is what makes you unique, and you should harness that. Being a black sheep gives you creative license to do sh*t differently."

Andre Hueston Mack

"I feel like you can’t judge a book by its cover, that’s always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world."

Andre Hueston Mack

"I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back."

Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

"If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes."

Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

"With wine and being lost, withless and less of both:I rode through the snow, do you read meI rode God far--I rode Godnear, he sang,it wasour last ride overthe hurdled humans.They cowered whenthey heard usoverhead, theywrote, theylied our neighinginto one of theirimage-ridden languages."

Paul Celan, Glottal Stop

"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations."

C. JoyBell C.

"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Hunger gives flavour to the food."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"All worries are less with wine."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness -And Wilderness is Paradise enow."

Omar Khayyám

"The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best."

Marty Rubin

"Come boy, and pour for me a cupOf old Falernian. Fill it upWith wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear;Our host decrees no water here.Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew,The sluggish thin their blood with dew.For such pale stuff we have no use;For us the purple grape's rich juice.Begone, ye chilling water sprite;Here burning Bacchus rules tonight!"

Catullus, Selections From Catullus: Translated into English verse with an Introduction on the theory of Translation

"One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes — destroying everything that separates you from the Lover. Once you taste the fruit of this vine, you will be kicked out of the city of yourself. You will forget the world. You will forget yourself. I tell you: you will become a madman who wanders the streets looking for the Lover once you drink this Wine of Love."

Kamand Kojouri

"The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love."

Kamand Kojouri

"Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment."

Will Self

"All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own."

Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

"You can be drunk on wine.You can be drunk on success.I'm just drunk on the success of my wine."

Anthony T. Hincks

"How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yoursWill make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.When once you hear the roses are in bloom,Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-These are but fairy-tales, forget them all."

Omar Khayyám

"If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly."

Sandra Byrd, Bon Appetit

"Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent."

Roman Payne, Europa: Limited Time Edition

"Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Francis Bacon

"There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost."

Ann Fairbairn

"For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people."

Olivier Magny, Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure

"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."

Charles Bukowski, South of No North

"I move we get more wine,' Alistair said. 'What does the panel think?'...It was obvious that the entire war could be solved in this way. The trick would be to reach for a corkscrew instead, every time some brass hat ordered artillery."

Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven

"The night it fallsThe stars shine throughThe inky blackThat is the cueFor plot demandsThat dreams be sownThe fantasies I have aloneThe words come fastThey flow like wineI am the midnight writer..."

Virginia Alison

"I had a dream that Mark Wahlberg and his wife were our neighbors and we had dance parties in our living room and drank wine from Solo cups. I remember being confused as to why they lived in a regular neighborhood, or why it didn't seem to make anyone awkward that I had Marky's Calvin ads up in the living room."

Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3

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