856 Quotes About Wine

  • Author Charles Dickens
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    The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

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  • Author David Denby
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    Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

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  • Author Diogenes
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    To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay.

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  • Author Geena Davis
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    [My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done."

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  • Author Isadora Duncan
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    Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

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  • Author Isak Dinesen
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    There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

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