Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we’re given.

You’re not old: You are like wine. You get better over time.

You drink wine by the glass, and I drink wine by the trashcan. Seriously, I’ll be by the trashcan if you need me.

I had about half a bottle of red wine and it kind of took the edge off me,

Good wines are produced in small quantities. It is a matter of time and attention and picking only the best grapes. Today they get as much as they can out of the ground, and what...

When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face...

In wine, there’s truth.

I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can… and WINE to help me accept the things I can’t!

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

If my last name were Drinkfood, I’d pour you a hot cup of spaghetti. And if my last name were Eatdrink, I’d be more romantic and pour you some wine, and let you sip it...

I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

First, the best wine is where you find it. It doesn’t have to be the most expensive wine.

He’d heard of elvenblossom wine. It was known for its stultifying bouquet of fruit blossoms and the battle-axe power of its alcohol content. Only those of elven blood could stomach the sweet stuff, he’d heard,...

Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows.

The wine is drawn, M. le Marquis…we must drink it.′

She wasn’t my kind of woman and that’s why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the truth out of a woman sooner than any confession box does. Makes you...

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head...

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing… it eventempts him to blurt...

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as...

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He’s this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot...

The premise of Nossiter in ‘Mondovino’ would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously...

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...

Otwórz butelkę czerwonego wina, którą na pewno masz. Uwiedziesz mnie dzisiaj.

Are you handing me an empty wine glass? You’re so thoughtful. How’d you know I wasn’t in the mood to drink?

When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn’t let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I...

All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a...

If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.

I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don’t function well in jobs that don’t have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters,...

Water IS the most important element on the face of the earth, because without water, there would be no WINE and without WINE I would be living in a PADDED CELL!

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

It was 2:00 p.m., too early for wine but not for chocolate.

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

I decide to order wine, despite the fact that I don’t like it. But just because I don’t enjoy it is no reason for me not to not enjoy it. I’m romantic like that, I...

Death is a poison parsley on a dessert wine.

As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in life’s hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine 19th Century French wine.

There is truth in wine, but you never see it listed in the ingredients on the label

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse – and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness -And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

A German wine label is one of the things life’s too short for.

It is fitting that yesteryear’s swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today’s solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

You’d better take that wine back. It’s a little off.

No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.