Quotes about wine

„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.

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

—  Sophia Loren Italian actress 1934

„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.

„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

„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

„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/

„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

„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"

„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

The Rubaiyat (1120)
Context: 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.

„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

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From Poetry

„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

„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)

„You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?“

—  Graham Greene, book Monsignor Quixote

On a priest who pantomimes Mass, Monsignor Quixote, PBS TV (February 13, 1987)

„That evening I lit many candles and sat in the library wearing fresh linen and drinking good wine while I read a treatise on astronomy by a student of Kepler’s and reflected on my increasing disagreement with Luther, who had judged reason to be the chief enemy of Faith, of the purity of his beliefs. He had considered reason a harlot, willing to turn to anyone’s needs, but this merely displayed his own suspicion of logic. I have come to believe him the madman Catholics described him as. Most mad people see logic as a threat to the dream in which they would rather live, a threat to their attempts to make the dream reality (usually through force, through threat, through manipulation and through bloodshed). It is why men of reason are so often the first to be killed or exiled by tyrants.“

—  Michael Moorcock, book The War Hound and the World's Pain

Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 1 (pp. 11-12)

„I'm sipping on you like some fine wine, though
And when it's over, I press rewind, though“

—  Fetty Wap American rapper and singer from New Jersey 1991

"679" (feat. Monty)

„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.

„The lives of the Outer Dwellers had become almost normal again. Bitterness was their bread and rivalry their wine.“

—  Mervyn Peake English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911 - 1968

Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 69 (p. 743)

„I never drink…wine.“

—  Garrett Fort screenwriter 1900 - 1945

Dracula, to Harker, at his castle
Dracula (1931)

„To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort.“

—  Alain-René Lesage French writer 1668 - 1747

La Tontine (1709)