Quotes with wine-glass

Quotes 61 till 80 of 124.

  • Francis Bacon Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aristophanes Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Wes Smith Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
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  • Barry Cornwall Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Samuel Pepys Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Oscar Wilde The English have a miraculous power to turn wine into water.
    His Life and Wit
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Nicholson The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
    Motherland (2012)
    William Nicholson
    British playwright, screenplay and novelist (1948 - )
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  • Sir William Temple The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Carole Bouquet The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Augustus Hare The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Boris Yeltsin The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Raymond Chandler The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Adam Savage The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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