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Quotes about Wine


Good wine needs no bush.

William Shakespeare

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

William Shakespeare

The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.

William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!

William Shakespeare

Cas. Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
Iago. Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.

William Shakespeare

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.

Francis Bacon

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

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

John Webster

I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.

Robert Burton

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Robert Burton

Out-did the meat, out-did the frolick wine.

Robert Herrick

Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.

Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine,--
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler

When night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

John Milton

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

John Milton

We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
But search of deep philosophy,
Wit, eloquence, and poetry;
Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.

Abraham Cowley

To happy convents bosom'd deep in vines,
Where slumber abbots purple as their wines.

Alexander Pope

Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind.

Alexander Pope

And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.

Alexander Pope

From wine what sudden friendship springs!

John Gay

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all save the spirit of man is divine?

George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.

George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron

Come to the bridal chamber, Death!
Come to the mother's, when she feels
For the first time her first-born's breath!
Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke!
Come in consumption's ghastly form,
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm!
Come when the heart beats high and warm,
With banquet song, and dance, and wine!
And thou art terrible!--the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,
And all we know or dream or fear
Of agony are thine.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

Oh! wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
With your hands and your feet and your raiment all red?
And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

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