Quotes about wine

A collection of quotes on the topic of alcohol, wine, likeness, drink.

Best quotes about wine

„Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it“

— A.A. Milne British author 1882 - 1956

Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.

„I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine then be a size zero.“

— Sophia Loren Italian actress 1934

„You've been nipping at cook's wine!!“

— Tamora Pierce American writer of fantasy novels for children 1954

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

— Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274

„A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition“

— Rudyard Kipling English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865 - 1936

„I called the Navab's wine blood,“

— Laxmi Prasad Devkota Nepali poet 1909 - 1959

Lunatic. 5
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: I called the Navab's wine blood, the painted whore a corpse, and the king a pauper. I attacked Alexander with insults, and denounced the so-called great souls. The lowly I have raised on the bridge of praise to the seventh heaven. Your learned pandit is my great fool, your heaven my hell, your gold my iron, friend! Your piety my sin. Where you see yourself as brilliant I find you a dolt. Your rise, friend-my decline. That's the way our values are mixed up, friend! Your whole world is a hair to me. Oh yes, friend, I'm moonstruck through and through- moonstruck! That's just the way I am.

„Wine will make you whine all the day long.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

„My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.“

— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Source: Notebook

„I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.“

— Peter Ustinov English actor, writer, and dramatist 1921 - 2004

„Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. “

— George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633

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„I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine, and a straight razor if you get too close to me.“

— Charles Manson American criminal and musician 1934 - 2017

Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrqaPThCmI

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

— John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821

Books, Music, Weather

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

— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

Love

„I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.“

— Nikos Kazantzakis, book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

Sea, Happiness, Happy

„Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino, nun se contano mai.”’ ‘“Years, lovers and glasses of wine; these things must not be counted.“

— Anthony Capella British writer 1962

Source: The Food of Love

Lovers

„What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.“

— Nikos Kazantzakis, book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 23

Dreams, Fish, Laughter

„I excused myself as soon as I finished eating, and boy did I stuff myself on that meal. I then walked outside onto the beach. The wine had long since gone to my head, making me feel a sense of dizzy invigoration. I started walking along the shore, taking in the magnificence of the gentle, moonlit ocean. It was so… romantic. I kept walking and walking with no destination in mind. The romance of it all filled me with despair and longing. I wanted a girlfriend to experience that moment with me, but no girl wanted to be my girlfriend. The only thing I could do was imagine how heavenly it would be to have a beautiful girl by my side. It is such a shameful tragedy.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

I ended up walking for two hours, and at the end of it I was crying to myself because I felt so sad.
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 19, Longing

Beauty, Feeling, Imagination, Girl

„I lift my heart as spring lifts up
A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup
Altho' it holds but pain.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.“

— Sara Teasdale, Rivers to the Sea

"Alchemy"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

Pain, Spring, Heart, Learning

„Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.“

— Paulo Coelho, book Brida

Source: Brida

Life, Drink

„America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.“

— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865

First attributed to Lincoln in 2002, this seems a paraphrase of a statement in the Lyceum address of 1838, while incorporating language used by Thomas E. Dewey (c. 1944), who said "By the same token labor unions can never be destroyed from the outside. They can only fail if they fail to lend their united support to full production in a free society".
Misattributed

Freedom

„If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.“

— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962

„You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.“

— Derek Walcott Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright 1930 - 2017

"Love after Love"
Source: "A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (1986)

Love, Life, Heart

„And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.“

— Toni Morrison American writer 1931 - 2019

Love, Books, Dreams, Water

„I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.“

— Oliver Goldsmith, book The Vicar of Wakefield

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield

Love, Books, Time, Birthday

„I made public the resolution to abstain from wine, which had been hidden in the treasury of my breast The victorious servants, in accordance with the illustrious order, dashed upon the earth of contempt and destruction the flagons and the cups, and the other utensils in gold and silver, which in their number and their brilliance were like the stars of the firmament They dashed them in pieces, as, God willing! soon will be dashed the gods of the idolaters, - and they distributed the fragments among the poor and needy.“

— Babur 1st Mughal Emperor 1483 - 1530

Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, pp. 554-5. https://archive.org/stream/baburnama017152mbp#page/n623/mode/2up/search/dashed Also cited in Harsh Narain, The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources

God, Star, Victory

„To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."“

— Diogenes of Sinope ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy -404 - -322 BC

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 54
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

People, Drink, Question

„I am not dreaming about Bollywood as of now but if I get a role in a film, I am open to doing it. I am not obsessed with the idea of being a part of Bollywood. I am happy with television. Television, today, isn’t just bread and butter; it is wine and cheese. TV actors are very well paid, happy and go abroad to spend their holidays. I do not just like TV, I love it.“

— Sukirti Kandpal Indian actress 1987

On Bollywood and Television http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/interviews/television-today-isnt-just-bread-and-butter-also-wine-and-cheese-sukirti-kandpal/

Love, Dreams, Idea, Holiday

„I feel how inside of me word follows word and thought follows thought, growing to the last act of creation. Holy hour of bringing forth, you are pain and pleasure, and a longing for form, image and essence. I am only the instrument that God uses to sing his song. I am only the vessel that nature smilingly fills with new wine.“

— Joseph Goebbels Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897 - 1945

Ich fühle, wie in mir sich wachsend Wort an Wort, Gedanke an Gedanke reiht zum letzten Akt der Schöpfung. Heilige Stunde des Gebärens, Schmerz bist du und Lust und eine Sehnsucht nach Form, Gestalt und Wesen. Ich bin nur Instrument, darauf der alte Gott sein Lied singt. Ich bin nur harrendes Gefäß, in das Natur den neuen Wein mit Lächeln füllt.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

God, Pain, Pleasure, Feeling

„If I had a hammer, I'd build a city on stilts so my feet would stay dry when God's wine glass tilts. If I had a shovel, I'd dig a hole in the dirt and I'll be hiding when his drunken stupor lands upon earth“

— Aesop Rock American rapper 1976

"Tugboat Complex" from the album Labor Days. Archived at " The Original Hip-Hop (Rap) Lyrics Archive http://ohhla.com/anonymous/aesoprck/rm_bside/tugboat.rck.txt," Accessed May 22, 2014.

God

„I am tipsy after my
own feelings
themselves have become wine.
I forget myself, world and all.“

— Suman Pokhrel Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967

<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span>
From Poetry

World, Feeling, Forgetting

„The murderer smiles palely in wine,
Death's horror grips the sick.
Excoriated and naked, the nun prays
Before the Savior's agony on the cross.

The mother sings quietly in sleep.
Peacefully the child looks into the night
With eyes that are completely truthful.
In the whorehouse laughter rings.

By candlelight down in the cellar hole
The dead one paints with white hand
A grinning silence on the wall.
The sleeper whispers still.“

— Georg Trakl austrian poet 1887 - 1914

"Romance in the Night"

Death, Truth, Smile, Laughter

„When I spoke about Bond with Fleming, he said that when the character was conceived, Bond was a very simple, straightforward, blunt instrument of the police force, a functionary who would carry out his job rather doggedly. But he also had a lot of idiosyncrasies that were considered snobbish -- such as a taste for special wines, et cetera. But if you take Bond in the situations that he is constantly involved with, you see that it is a very hard, high, unusual league that he plays in. Therefore he is quite right in having all his senses satisfied -- be it sex, wine, food or clothes -- because the job, and he with it, may terminate at any minute. But the virtues that Amis mentions -- loyalty, honesty -- are there, too.“

— Sean Connery Scottish actor and producer 1930

PLAYBOY interview November 1965.

Food, Sex, Sense, Loyalty

„In the evening you hear the scream of bats,
Two black horses jump in the meadow,
The red maple rustles.
To the traveller the small inn appears by the wayside.
Wonderful the taste of young wine and nuts,
Wonderful: stumbling drunk into darkening wood.
Through black branches painful bells sound,
On the face dew drips.“

— Georg Trakl austrian poet 1887 - 1914

"Towards Evening My Heart," Poems (1913)
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/29/wild-heart-turning-white-georg-trakl-and-cocaine/

Pain, Travel, Appearance, Horse

„Within the vermilion gate, meats and wines go to waste
While on the roadside lie the frozen bodies of the poor.“

— Du Fu Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 712 - 770

As quoted in Lin Yutang's The Vermilion Gate (1914)

Lie

„As the Bajauris were rebels and at enmity with the people of Islam, and as, by reason of the heathenish and hostile customs prevailing in their midst, the very name of Islam was rooted out from their tribe, they were put to general massacre and their wives and children were made captive. At a guess more than 3000 men went to their death; as the fight did not reach to the eastern side of the fort, a few got away there. The fort taken, we entered and inspected it. On the walls, in houses, streets and alleys, the dead lay, in what numbers! Comers and goers to and fro were passing over the bodies… With mind easy about the important affairs of the Bajaur fort, we marched, on Tuesday the 9th of Muharram, one kuroh (2m) down the dale of Bajaur and ordered that a tower of heads should be set up on the rising ground. On Wednesday the 10th of Muharram, we rode out to visit the Bajaur fort. There was a wine-party in Khawaja Kalan's house, several goat-skins of wine having been brought.“

— Babur 1st Mughal Emperor 1483 - 1530

Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 370-71.

Death, Men, Hostility, Children

„Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.“

— Ben Jonson, To Celia

Song, To Celia, lines 1-16; this poem was inspired by "Letter XXIV" of Philostratus, which in translation reads: "Drink to me with your eyes alone…. And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me".
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
Context: Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honoring thee
As giving it a hope that there
It could not withered be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me;
Since when it grows and smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee.

Drink, Kiss

„I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.“

— Patrick Rothfuss American fantasy writer 1973

Interview with Fantasy Book Critic (25 May 2007)
Context: Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, "I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn again. It was excruciatingly hard, because I was writing a faerie tale while at the same time writing a spoof of a faerie tale."
I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.
While telling his story, Kvothe makes it clear that he's not the storybook hero legends make him out to be. But at the same time, the reader sees that he's a hero nonetheless. He's just a hero of a different sort.

Time

„Whether at Naishapur or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.“

— Omar Khayyám Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048 - 1131

Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)

Life

„Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

Weather

„Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?"
"Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed.“

— Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Truth, Nature, Thinking, Change

„Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.“

— A.A. Milne, book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Happy, Cute

„Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl.

"Yes… " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.“

— Kim Harrison Pseudonym 1966

Source: Ever After

„A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.“

— Jess Walter, book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

Disappointment, Sea

„Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.“

— Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Beer, Memory, Heart

„The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.“

— Craig Ferguson Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice artist 1962

Christmas

„It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.“

— Stephen Fry, book Moab Is My Washpot

Referencing Oscar Wilde from the preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; "All art is quite useless".
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Source: Moab Is My Washpot
Context: … but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe but not worth bothering with.

Love, Life, Beauty, Art

„It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.“

— Anthony Burgess, book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

Bird

„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!“

— Rick Riordan, book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

„While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.“

— Jack Vance American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916 - 2013

Color, Light, Past, Dead

„The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"
Alice: "Yes…"
The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.“

— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Madness

„There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.“

— Colette 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873 - 1954

Freedom (1908)
Source: Oeuvres complètes en seize volumes

Age, Solitude, Freedom

„I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.“

— Milan Kundera Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929

Source: Farewell Waltz

People, Stupidity, Happiness

„Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books“

— Stephen Fry English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist 1957

Source: The Fry Chronicles

Books, Teachers

„Because my spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.“

— A.A. Milne, book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Six - Pooh.

„Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered… sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks…“

— Ray Bradbury American writer 1920 - 2012

Sun, Summer

„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 English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626

No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
Context: Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that 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.

Age, Drink, Appearance, Reading

„It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.“

— Pat Conroy, book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

Secret, Light, Water

„Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.“

— Eoin Colfer, book Airman

Source: Airman

Dead

„I buy wine according to the bottle design. After I get down the first glass it all tastes okay to me so I figure you go for something classy to look at on the table“

— Janet Evanovich Novelist 1943

Source: Smokin' Seventeen

„Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.“

— Hunter S. Thompson American journalist and author 1937 - 2005

Life, Courage

„Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.“

— Fernando Pessoa Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher 1888 - 1935

Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

Life

„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, book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Wisdom, Drink

„Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!“

— Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998

Love, Age

„[…] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Winter

„In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could
hear, she said, "I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.“

— Julie Garwood American writer 1946

Source: The Secret

Drink, Thinking

„Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.“

— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson

„Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.“

— Bill Maher American stand-up comedian 1956

Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

„But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.“

— Emma Forrest British journalist, novelist and screenwriter 1976

Source: Your Voice in My Head

Pain, Sadness

„She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.“

— Paulo Coelho, book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Feeling, Soul, Drink, Forgetting

„Beer is made by men, wine by God.“

— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546

Men, God, Beer

„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“

— Charles Bukowski, book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Men, Tear

„his lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine“

— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962

Drink, Water, Heart

„Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.“

— George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824

Women, Laughter, Water

„Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For already have I suffered full much,
and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.
Let this be added to the tale of those.“

— Homér, The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

God, War, Suffering

„The best wines take the longest to mature.“

— John Fowles, book The French Lieutenant's Woman

Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman

„yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

Night

„Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.“

— Brandon Sanderson, book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

Hell, Drink, Time

„Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine,
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet.“

— Joni Mitchell Canadian musician 1943

"A Case of You" from Blue
Songs
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

Drink

„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.“

— Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist

Variant: It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
Source: The Alchemist

Men, Boy, Evil

„Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary…“

— Ernest Hemingway, book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Drink, Nature

„And, when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.“

— John Milton, book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Night

„I think it would dismay them to know what it takes to feed you. Not to mention that you could empty their cellars of beer and wine in a single night.' Eragon said. Saphira sniffed.“

— Christopher Paolini, book Eldest

Source: Eldest

Beer, Thinking, Night

„I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I loved to mix the two
together.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

Love, Money, Music

„I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.“

— Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973

Intelligence, Light

„A sip of wine, a cigarette,
And then it’s time to go.
I tidied up the kitchenette;
I tuned the old banjo.
I’m wanted at the traffic-jam.
They’re saving me a seat.“

— Leonard Cohen Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934 - 2016

Time

„What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.“

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet, author 1806 - 1861

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems

Dreams, For Him, For Boyfriend

„This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.“

— Ernest Hemingway, book The Sun Also Rises

Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Drink

„Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.“

— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Fear, Jealousy, Dreams, Music

„A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.“

— Matt Haig British writer 1975

Source: The Humans

Books, Art

„Wine is sunlight, held together by water.“

— Galileo Galilei Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564 - 1642

His description of wine, as quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 5
Other quotes
Variant: Light held together by moisture.

Water