Quotes About Wine

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Wine is bottled poetry.  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


Good wine is a necessity of life for me.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.  ~ Henry Fielding


Friends and wine should be old.  ~ Spanish proverb


A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.  ~ Louis Pasteur


Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.  ~ Louis Pasteur


A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.  ~ Charles Chaplin


Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.  ~ Brendab Behan


I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.  ~ W.C. Fields


Either give me more wine or leave me alone.  ~ Rumi


No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.  ~ Plato


One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.  ~ Samuel Johnson


I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.  ~ Peter Ustinov


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


In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.  ~ Unknown


Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.  ~ Samuel Johnson


Beer is made by men, wine by God!  ~ Martin Luther


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.  ~ Charles Baudelaire


The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.  ~ John Keats


Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.  ~ Ernest Hemingway


A cocktail is to a glass of wine as rape is to love.  ~ Paul Claudel


Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.  ~ George Gordon Byron


Wine fills the heart with courage.  ~ Plato


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.  ~ Ernest Hemingway