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
“I am drinking the stars!”
Dom Perignon, on his first sip of bubbly Champagne
“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. “
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
FERNAND POINT
“We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.”
Franz Marc
“I’m only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. I don’t like beer.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Champagne…the wine of kings, the king of wines.”
GUY DU MAUPAUSSANT
“Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.”
HELEN GURLEY BROWN
“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”
Honore de Balzac
Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and champagne makes you do them.”
JEAN-ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN
“There’s nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.”
JEFFREY BERNARD
“No government could survive without champagne. Champagne in the throats of our diplomatic people is like oil in the wheels of an engine.”
Joseph Dargent
“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”
Lord Byron
“Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it.”
Madame De Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV. (1721 - 1764).
“One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.”
MARK TWAIN (Used in the 2013 SPIT competition).
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.”
MARK TWAIN
“Champagne makes you feel like it’s Sunday and better days are just around the corner.”
MARLENE DIETRICH
“In victory, you deserve Champagne, in defeat, you need it.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Why do I drink champagne for breakfast? Doesn’t everyone?”
NOEL COWARD
“There are three intolerable things in life… cold coffee, lukewarm Champagne, and overexcited women.”
Orson Welles
“Pleasure without champagne is purely artificial.”
OSCAR WILDE
“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.”
PAUL CLAUDEL
“Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange.”
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
“If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the champagne.”
Rudyard Kipling, British author (1865 - 1936).
“There are only two occasions when I drink champagne, and these are: when I have game for dinner and when I haven’t.”
S.D. CHURCHILL
“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love is like being enlivened with Champagne.”
Samuel Johnson
“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.”
SERENA SUTCLIFFE
“Champagne is the wine of civilisation and the oil of government.”
Winston Churchill
“There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.”
TOM STOPPARD
“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
TOM WAITS
“God made only water, but man made wine.”
Victor Hugo (Used in the 2013 SPIT competition)
“I make wine for myself. What I can’t drink, I sell!”
VICTOR LANSON, of Champagne Lanson
“The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.”
Voltaire
“In a perfect world, everyone would have a glass of Champagne every evening.”
Willie Gluckstern
“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.”
Winston Churchill
“In success you deserve it, and in defeat you need it.”
Winston Churchill
“Remember gentlemen, it’s not just France we are fighting for, it’s Champagne!”
Winston Churchill
“I am easily satisfied with the best.”
Winston Churchill
“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of Champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”
Winston Churchill
“Maybe I misjudged Stromberg. Any man who drinks Dom Perignon ´52 can´t be all bad.”
James Bond
“Hey, did you ever try dunking a potato chip in Champagne. It’s real crazy!”
Marilyn Monroe in “The Seven Year Itch” (1955)
“The night they invented Champagne, it’s plain as it can be they thought of you and me…”
Leslie Caron in “Gigi” (1958)
“Why do you take aspirin with Champagne?” “Oh, Champagne gives me a headache.”
Al Pacino in “Author! Author!” (1982)
“Oh no, Emil, please. A bottle of your best Champagne, and put it on my bill.”
Captain Renault in “Casablanca” (1942)
“Love is like an empty bottle of Champagne: you don’t refill it, you get a new bottle.”
Rossana Rory (as Anna) in “Come September” (1961)
“I don’t think I’ve ever drunk Champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before.”
George Peppard in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
“When a man says no to Champagne, he says no to life.”
Pierre Segui in “The Deer Hunter” (1978)
“The wonderful thing about Paris is that you can get French Champagne at domestic prices.”
Roland Young in “The Great Lover” (1949)
