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Champagne Quotes Flashcards

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Who said: “I only drink champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone.
When I have company I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I’m not in a hurry and drink it when I am, otherwise I never touch the stuff unless I am thirsty.

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Lilly Bollinger

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Who said: “Bollinger? If it’s ‘69, you were expecting me.”

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James Bond to Holly Goodhead in Moonraker (1979)

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Who said: “Can you imagine opening a bottle of champagne with a bottle opener. I can’t. It would eliminate half the fun.”

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ALAIN DE VOGUE

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Who said: “Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. “

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Aldous Huxley

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Who said: “One glass of champagne and I smile, two and I grin, but three I’m ever so ready to sin.”

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ANASTASIA MILLER

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Who said: “A cause may be inconvenient, but it’s magnificent. It’s like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.”

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Arnold Bennett

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Who said: “There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”

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BETTE DAVIS

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Who said: “Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.”

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BRIGITTE BARDOT

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Who said: “Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra’s pearls.”

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BYRON from Don Juan

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Who said: “Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.”

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CHARLES DICKENS

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Who said: “Champagne should be cold, dry and, hopefully, free.”

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CHRISTIAN POL ROGER

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Who said: “I only drink Champagne when in love and when not.”

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Christian Pol Roger

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Who said: “The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.”

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Clement Attlee

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Who said: “Champagne should not be drunk, it should be tasted. One should not swallow it greedily. One should taste it slowly in narrow glasses, in well-spaced, thoughtful sips.”

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Colette, French author, (1873 - 1954).

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Who said “I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.”

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Danica McKellar

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Who said:”“Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.”?

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DAVID NIVEN

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Who said:”I am drinking the stars!”?

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Dom Perignon, on his first sip of bubbly Champagne

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Who said:”Three be the things I shall never attain:

Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”?

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Dorothy Parker

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Who said:”Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. “?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Who said:”“I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two fingerbowls of Champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.” “?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Who said:”“I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne…I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between.”?

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FERNAND POINT

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Who said:”“We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.”?

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FRANZ MARC

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Who said:”I’m only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. I don’t like beer.”?

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George Bernard Shaw

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Who said:”Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”?

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GRAHAM GREENE

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Who said:”“Champagne…the wine of kings, the king of wines.”?

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GUY DU MAUPAUSSANT

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Who said:”“Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.”?

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HELEN GURLEY BROWN

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27
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Who said:”Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”?

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Honore de Balzac

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Who said:”“Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic
situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mother’s womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne, the food of Aphrodite.
“?

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Isadora Duncan, American dancer (1878 - 1927).

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Who said:”Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and champagne makes you do them.”?

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JEAN-ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN

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Who said:”There’s nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.”?

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JEFFREY BERNARD

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Who said:”Champagne’s funny stuff. I’m used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne’s a heavy mist before my eyes.”?

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Jimmy Stewart (from the movie The Philadelphia Story)

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Who said:”No government could survive without champagne. Champagne in the throats of our diplomatic people is like oil in the wheels of an engine. “?

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Joseph Dargent

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Who said:”I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words ‘ice queen’ attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There’s this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.”?

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Kristin Scott Thomas

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Who said:”A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”?

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Lord Byron

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Who said:”Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it.”?

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  • Madame De Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV. (1721 - 1764).
36
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Who said:”“One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.”?

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MARK TWAIN – brugt i 2013

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Who said:”“Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.”?

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MARK TWAIN

38
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Who said:”“Champagne makes you feel like it’s Sunday and better days are just around the corner.”?

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MARLENE DIETRICH

39
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Who said:”My only regret is that I did not drink more Champagne.”?

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John Maynard Keynes, on his deathbed

40
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Who said:”In victory, you deserve Champagne, in defeat, you need it.”?

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Napoleon Bonaparte

41
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Who said:”I drink champagne when I win, to celebrate . . . and I drink champagne when I lose, to console myself.”?

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Napoleon Bonaparte

42
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Who said:”“Why do I drink champagne for breakfast? Doesn’t everyone?”?

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NOEL COWARD

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Who said:”“There are three intolerable things in life… cold coffee, lukewarm Champagne, and overexcited women.””?

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Orson Welles

44
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Who said:”“Pleasure without champagne is purely artificial.”?

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OSCAR WILDE

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Who said:”“The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.”?

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PAUL CLAUDEL

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Who said:”“Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.”?

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Paul Claudel, French playwright (1868 - 1955).

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Who said:”"”After all, what is your host’s purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.”?

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P.J. O’ROURKE

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Who said:”Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange.

”?

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Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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Who said:”“If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the champagne.”?

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Rudyard Kipling, British author (1865 - 1936).

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Who said:”“There are only two occasions when I drink champagne, and these are: when I have game for dinner and when I haven’t.”?

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S.D. CHURCHILL

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Who said:”The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love is like being enlivened with Champagne.”?

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Samuel Johnson

52
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Who said:”“Of all wines, Champagne is the one that is the anytime drink, the panacea for all ills, the best bottle for any occasion and absolutely the only solution when there is something to celebrate.”?

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SERENA SUTCLIFFE

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Who said:”“Champagne is the wine of civilisation and the oil of government.”?

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TALLEYRAND

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Who said:”“There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.”?

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TOM STOPPARD

55
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Who said:”“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”?

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TOM WAITS

56
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Who said:”God made only water, but man made wine”?

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Victor Hugo – brugt i 2013

57
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Who said:”“I make wine for myself. What I can’t drink, I sell!”?

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VICTOR LANSON, of Champagne Lanson

58
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Who said:”“The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.”?

A

Voltaire

59
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Who said:”In a perfect world, everyone would have a glass of Champagne every evening.”?

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Willie Gluckstern

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Who said:”A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced, the imagination is agreeably stirred; the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces the contrary effect. Excess causes a comatose insensibility. So it is with war: and the quality of both is best discovered by sipping. “?

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Winston Churchill

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Who said:”In success you deserve it, and in defeat you need it.”?

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Winston Churchill

62
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Who said:”Remember gentlemen, it’s not just France we are fighting for, it’s Champagne!”?

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Winston Churchill

63
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Who said:”“I am easily satisfied with the best.”?

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Winston Churchill

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Who said:”“Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.”?

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Winston Churchill

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Who said:”“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of Champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”?

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Winston Churchill

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