Virginia Woolf Quotes, Wine Quotes, Water Quotes

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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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

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even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.

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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

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Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?

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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as “nigh -walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.” But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer imiverse, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder.

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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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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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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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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

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

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Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

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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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