Brandon Wright > Brandon's Quotes

“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
― Martin Luther

“My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.”
― Charles Bukowski, South of No North

“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
― Louis Pasteur

“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”
― Andre Simon

“Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human”
― Paul Tillich

“Wine makes all things possible.”
― George R.R. Martin, The Mystery Knight

“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“Life's too short to drink cheap wine...”
― Cliff Hakim

“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”
― Clifton Fadiman

“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said Spider. “These things are wine, women and song"...

"Curry’s nice too" pointed out Fat Charlie”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Great wine works wonders and is itself one”
― Edward Steinberg, The Making of a Great Wine: Gaja and Sori San Lorenzo