Quotes about Wine

It is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

How much better is thy love than wine!

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over for cheese and wine and go shopping in my wardrobe. They especially love it when they get stuff with a tag still on.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

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.

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

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.