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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The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

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

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

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

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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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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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

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

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

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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

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

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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

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