Quotes of: Old-wine Keyword

A brick could be used to crush grapes. If that sounds unnecessarily cruel, then I guess you wouldn’t like to pour you a glass of wine. It’s a shame, because I made it myself.  

Brick

That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it.

Brilliance

Age, they say, is only important if you're cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?

Terry Wogan

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

Malcolm Mclaren

Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

The Alchemist

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

A Habit of Resistance

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

The Street of Crocodiles

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

A Season in Hell

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

Love is a Dog from Hell

We don’t need to take off our pants and stand naked in the snow to experience the harshness of life; a clever person even can feel it with a bottle of wine.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

The Mark of Athena

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

The Sea of Monsters

If I were an alcoholic, I’d work at a wine farm, where grape booze grows on trees, bottled and ready to chug.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

Are you handing me an empty wine glass? You’re so thoughtful. How’d you know I wasn’t in the mood to drink?

So many chairs, and no time to sit

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

...wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ... Volume 1 of 2

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

I’ll give you a glass of wine, if you give me a few drops of water from your eyes. I’m thirsty for your sadness.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

The Wanderess

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

The War of the Worlds