Quotes with wine-glass

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  • William Shakespeare If it is true that 'good wine needs no bush', 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Shenstone A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Bernard Levin His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Fielding Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Philip Roth A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • James John Walker A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.
    James John Walker
    American politician (1881 - 1946)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Charles Baudelaire A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • John Milton And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Asne Seierstad As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
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  • Colin Powell Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • William Shakespeare Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
    a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
    a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
    a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
    lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Immermann Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Anton Chekhov Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Benjamin Franklin Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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