Wine Quotes

Wine … offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

Ernest Hemingway



My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne.

John Maynard Keynes



A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

Euripides



Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Ernest Hemingway



When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes



Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory, but so are those of the ballet or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Napoleon



The scope of the subject of wine is never ending, so many other subjects lie within its boundaries. Without geography and topography it is incomprehensible; without history it is colorless; without taste it is meaningless; without travel it remains unreal. It embraces botany, chemistry, agriculture, carpentry, economics – any number of sciences whose names I do not even know. It leads you up paths of knowledge and by-ways of experience you would never glimpse without it.

Hugh Johnson



Beer is made by men, wine by God!

Martin Luther



In vino veritas (In wine is truth).

(Attributed to) Plato



I am falser than vows made in wine.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It



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

William Shakespeare, Othello



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, The Anatomy of Melancholy



Wine is life.

Petronius



Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

Napoleon



Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy, 5:23



The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Homer, The Odyssey



In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. 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



It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Heraclitus



He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate - bringing forth food from the earth: wine that makes glad the heart of man.

Psalms 104:14



Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

Horace



Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.

Lord Byron



Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary.

Baba Bathra (Babylonian Talmud)



The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the vine.

Thucydides