Wine Quotes: Wine is a drink that has been around since the beginning of time, and as it ages it gets better. It is a drink which is taken for different occasions and by individuals at different levels of life. Some of its lovers have been blown away by the feeling each sip provides and had a lot of positive words to give about it.

Here are some of the best Wine Quotes.

Wine Quotes

1. “Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.” – Michael Broadbent

2. “Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.” ― Unknown

3. “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

4. “It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.” – Heraclitus

5. “Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.” – Lord Byron

6. “Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” ― Pope John XXIII

7. “There are days when solitude 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.” – Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

8. “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

9. “Wine offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.” – Ernest Hemingway

10. “I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.” – Oliver Goldsmith

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Here are Wine Quotes In English.

11. “The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.” ― Benjamin Franklin

12. “His lips drink water, but his heart drinks wine.” – E.E. Cummings

13. “Wine is life.” – Petronius

14. “Life is too short to drink bad wine.” ― Unknown

15. “Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.” – Proverbs 31:6 – 7

16. “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

17. “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

18. “Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.” – Paul Claudel

19. “I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn’t know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.” ― Basil Fawlty

20. “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway

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Here are Best Wine Quotes.

Famous Wine Quotes

Here are Famous Wine Quotes.

31. “In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

32. “From wine what sudden friendship springs!” – John Gay

33. “Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.” ― Alexander Fleming

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

35. “Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.” – John Webster

36. “Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

37. “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

38. “Making wine is like having children; you love them all, but boy, are they different.” – Bunny Finkelstein

39. “Beer is made by men, wine by God.” – Martin Luther

40. “A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.” ― Kathy Mattea

Quotes About Wine

Here are Quotes About Wine.

41. “Champagne is appropriate for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.” ― Madeline Puckette

42. “Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.” ― Leon Adams

43. “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

44. “My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.” – Ernest Hemingway

45. “We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.” ― Russell Brand

46. “Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary.” – Babylonian Talmud

47. “Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.” – Elizabeth Taylor

48. “Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.” – Attributed to the late Julia Child

49. “Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.” – Samuel Johnson

50. “If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.” – Clifton Fadiman

Wine Quotes And Sayings

Here are Wine Quotes And Sayings.

51. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine, it’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney

52. “They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.” – Isaiah, 29:9

53. “I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember, I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles.” – Attributed to a Bishop of Seville

54. “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

55. “Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. “He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.” – Samuel Johnson

57. “The wine-cup is the little silver well,
Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.” – William Shakespeare

58. “Wine, the intellectual part of the meal.” – Alexandre Dumas

59. “She gets to keep the chalet and the Rolls, I want the Montrachet.” ― Forbes Magazine

60. “It takes a lot of good beer to make great wine” ― Brian O’Donnell

Wine Sayings

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61. “The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler.” – Titus Maccius

62. “One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters. But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” – Charles Baudelaire

63. “What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.” – Thomas Moore

64. “What wine goes with Captain Crunch?” ― George Carlin

65. “In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.” – Franklin P. Adams

66. “Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.” – Napoleon

67. “I pray you do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.” – William Shakespeare

68. “Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.” – Samuel Johnson

69. “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

70. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” – Rumi

Classy Wine Quotes

Here are Classy Wine Quotes.

71. “For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red.” – Psalms 75:8

72. “We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.” – Charles Caleb Colton

73. “A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

74. “Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.” – André Simon

75. “A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, “A man can live without art, but not without culture.” – Unknown

76. “He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.” – Martin Luther King

77. “The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.” – French proverb

78. “Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

79. “Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.” – Spanish saying

80. “Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.” – Robert Mondavi

Short Wine Quotes

Here are Short Wine Quotes.

81. “I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.” – Voltaire

82. “No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.” – Thomas Jefferson

83. “I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.” – Gerald Asher

84. “Compromises are for relationships, not wine.” – Sir Robert Scott Caywood

85. “Good wine needs no bush.” – William Shakespeare

86. “A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

87. “And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.” – Alexander Pope

88. “Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.” – William Shakespeare

89. “One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice, and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.” – Yoshida Kenko

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

Fine Wine Quotes

Here are Fine Wine Quotes.

91. “There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.” – Thomas Conklin

92. “A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only to be admired passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when it functions well in tandem with a menu.” – Gerald Asher

93. “When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don’t respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.” – Kingsley Amis

94. “You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.” —Publius Syrius

95. “The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the vine.” – Thucydides

96. “Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babies, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.” – John Stuart Blackie

97. “If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?” – Cardinal Richeleu

98. “It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one’s present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason.” – Latin saying

99. “Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.” – Anon French Proverb

100. “Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.” – Medieval German saying

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