Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Real Quotes, Wine Quotes

Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

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The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

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The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

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now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

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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 a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

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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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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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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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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

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

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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

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