Quotes Flashcards
“Lord, please let them accept the things they can’t change and pray that all of their pain be Champagne”
Kanye West
“Why is it that at a bachelor’s establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne?…I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand”
Oscar Wilde
“I drink it 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 hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it—unless I’m thirsty.”
Lilly Bollinger
“The thing about champagne, you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it’s a celebration, so there’s no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you’re sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.”
David Levitan, American Fiction Writer
“There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
BETTE DAVIS (IN “OLD ACQUAINTANCE”)
“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON, 18th-century English writer
“My dear girl, there are some things that just aren’t done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ’53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit.”
JAMES BOND, PLAYED BY SEAN CONNERY
“My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life.”
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
“Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
DOROTHY PARKER, American auhtor and poet
“I drink champagne when I win, to celebrate…And I drink champagne when I lose, to console myself.”
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
“A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred; the wits become more nimble.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL, UK Prime Minister from 1940-1945 and 1951-1955
“A little known fact…champagne and breathmint are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.”
MICHAEL MOORE, Filmmaker & auhtor
“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.”
GRAHAM GREENE, english auhtor
“In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.”
PAUL CLAUDEL, French poet, dramatist, and diplomat
“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.”
ARNOLD BENNET, 19th-century American playwright
If I were not King of France, I would like to be Prince of Aÿ”
Henri IV, King of France
“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.”
Lilly Bollinger (Used in the 2012 SPIT competition)
“Bollinger? If it’s ‘69, you were expecting me.”
James Bond to Holly Goodhead in Moonraker (1979)
“Can you imagine opening a bottle of champagne with a bottle opener. I can’t. It would eliminate half the fun.”
ALAIN DE VOGUE
“Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. “
Aldous Huxley
“One glass of champagne and I smile, two and I grin, but three I’m ever so ready to sin.”
ANASTASIA MILLER
“Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.”
BRIGITTE BARDOT
“Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra’s pearls.”
BYRON from Don Juan
“Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.”
CHARLES DICKENS
“Champagne should be cold, dry and, hopefully, free.”
CHRISTIAN POL ROGER
“I only drink Champagne when in love and when not.”
Christian Pol Roger
“The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.”
Clement Attlee
“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.”
Colette, French author, (1873 - 1954)
“I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.”
Danica McKellar
“Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.”
DAVID NIVEN