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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The printed page was like wine to me.

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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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[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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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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Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

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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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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

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Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

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

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

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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

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