Charles Dickens Quotes, Twilight Quotes, Wine Quotes

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

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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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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

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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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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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I am falser than vows made in wine.

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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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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse.

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Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

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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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Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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