Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Wine Quotes

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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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

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Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

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Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

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Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

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I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.

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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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If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

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The printed page was like wine to me.

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The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

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

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Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

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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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What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.

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Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.

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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

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