This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.