Oscar Wilde Quotes, Food Quotes, Wine Quotes

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

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Food Quotes , Wine Quotes

Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

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Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content"......Conan the Cimmerian.

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After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

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

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I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Wine Quotes , World Quotes

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

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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

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'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Wine Quotes , Tea Quotes

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

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Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

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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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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

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

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The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

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