My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
Do you prefer fermented or distilled? This is a trick question. It doesn’t matter how much you like wine, because wine is social and writing is anti-social. This is a writer’s interview, writing is a lonely job, and spirits are the lubricant of t...
Always be drunk. That’s it! The great imperative! In order not to feel Time’s horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, Get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk. And if you som...
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!
At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there’s gonna be wine in the mix at some point.
The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.
He could still remember how the first sip of wine made him feel.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.'
I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.
He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.
There's nothing more annoying than a man ordering wine at a bar when you're not eating.
Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
