Winston Churchill Quotes, Wine Quotes, Beef Quotes

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

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If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

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Good wine needs no bush.

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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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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Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

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By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.

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A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.

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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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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

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I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

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I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

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Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

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

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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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