Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Wine Quotes, Oysters Quotes

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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To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, "The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam," you'd say, "Okay, that's kind of conceivable." If you're talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.

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Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

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

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

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"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

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

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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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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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

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Language is wine upon the lips.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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

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