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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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

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

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

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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

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

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

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Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

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I am falser than vows made in wine.

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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

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

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

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

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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

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After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

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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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How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

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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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