Famous Wine Quotes...

Let me know if I missed any,

Quotes on wine tasting and lot more. Enjoy!

"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

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from 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 Airen

"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."Samuel Johnson

"It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife."- Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)Sebastian Barnack, in Time Must Have a Stop, ch 12 (1944)Assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne.

"By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt."Thomas Jefferson

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

"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long "Johann Heinrich Voss

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."Ernest Hemingway.

"I drink champagne when I win, to celebrate ... and I drink champagne when I lose to console myself."Napoleon

"If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life." Sir Alexander Fleming

"Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized." Andre Simon, Commonsense of Wine

"Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's Champagne!" Winston S. Churchill, 1918

"Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It's culture. It's the essence of civilization and the art of living."Robert Mondavi, "Harvests Of Joy," Autobiography

"Drink a glass of wine after your soup and you steal a ruble from your doctor." Russian proverb

"A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows."George Bernard Shaw

"You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one."Len Evans

"The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars." Benjamin Franklin

"Wine ...moderately drunken It doth quicken a man's wits,It doth comfort the heart." Andrew Boorde, 1562, "Dyetary of Helth"

"In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary."Ernest Hemingway

"Wine has been a part of civilized life for some seven thousand years. It is the only beverage that feeds the body, soul and spirit of man and at the same time stimulates the mind." Robert Mondavi, "Harvests Of Joy," Autobiography

"Making good wine is a skill. Fine wine is an art." Robert Mondavi, "Harvests Of Joy," Autobiography

"A hard drinker, being at the table, was offered grapes for dessert. 'Thank you,' said he, pushing the dish away from him, 'but I am not in the habit of taking my wine in pills.'"Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "The Physiology of Taste"

"Fermented beverages have been preferred over water throughout the ages: they are safer, provide psychotropic effects, and are more nutritious. Some have even said alcohol was the primary agent for the development of Western civilization, since more healthy individuals (even if inebriated much of the time) lived longer and had greater reproductive success. " Dr. Patrick McGovern, et al., The Origin & Ancient History of Wine