| "[Grapes are] the most noble and challenging of fruits." Malcolm Dunn, Head Gardener to the 7th Viscount Powerscourt, c1867 - Quotes in 'Phylloxera' by Christy Campbell |
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| "Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly."- W.E.P. French (Commander's Palace Restaurant, New Orleans, Louisiana) | "Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie." Robert Burns (1759-1796) - Go Fetch to me a Pint o' Wine |
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| "You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell."-Publius Syrius (c. 43 BC) -Maxim 968 | "And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'." |
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| "Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity." John Keats - Women, Wine and Snuff |
"A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine." Robert Herrick (1591-1674) 'A Ternary of Littles' |
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| "If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?" - Cardinal Richeleu | "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities." - 1 Timothy, 5:23 | |
| "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." - Anonymous | "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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| "In vino veritas" - Pliny - Historia Naturalis | "Wine is bottled poetry." - Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| "The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations." French proverb |
"Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach." Spanish saying |
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| "I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others." Diogenes the Cynic |
"The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault." -Paul S. Winalski | |
| "We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here,
and we want them now!" Withnail in Withnail and I (1987) |
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" Larson E. Whipsnade - You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) |
