Virginia Woolf Quotes, Wine Quotes, Water Quotes

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

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Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

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"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

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Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

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The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

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A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

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Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

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Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.

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