Familiar Wine Quotes

I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty.
-Lily Bollinger's reply when asked "When do you drink champagne?

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Dorothy Parker

I am drinking the stars!
Dom Perignon, on his first sip of bubbly Champagne

Who took the cork out of my lunch?
W.C. Fields

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

Wine in itself is an excellent thing.
Pope Pius XII

Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
Benjamin Franklin

My manner of living is plain, a glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready, and such as will be content to partake of that are always welcome.
George Washington

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
Thomas Jefferson

I like friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Thomas Jefferson

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
Ernest Hemingway - Death in the Afternoon

If God forbade drinking, would He have made so good?
Cardinal Richelieu

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

Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.
- Spanish saying

The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.
French proverb

In Vino Veritas [ In wine is truth ].
Proverb quoted by PLATO - Symposium 217