Quotes Flashcards
Who said: “Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them.”
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Who said: “The Wines of Bordeaux give tone to the stomach, while leaving the mouth fresh and the head clear. More than one invalid abandoned by the doctors has been seen to drink the good old wine of Bordeaux and return to health.”?
Comments by members of the Jury judging Bordeaux wines submitted under the new 1855 classification at the 1855 World’s Fair in Paris
Who wrote”“I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.”?p
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Who wrote: “The grapes often are also very rotten, and always full of spiders. Besides that, I have been told by those of the country, that they often put salt, dung and other filthiness, in their wine to help, as they think, its purging. But, without these additions, the very sight of their treading and making their wine…walking without any scruple out of the dirt and into grapes they were treading…..were enough to set one’s stomach ever after against this sort of liquor.”?
–John Locke, 1679,
Observations upon the Growth and Culture of Vines and Olives
Who wrote: “This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”?
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), Count Mippipopolous, in The Sun Also Rises (1926).
Who said: “WHAT IS BETTER THAN TO SIT AT THE END OF THE DAY AND DRINK WINE WITH FRIENDS, OR SUBSTITUTES FOR FRIENDS?”?
James Joyce
Hvem sagde: “Tag Versailles og tilsæt Antwerpen, så får man Bordeaux”?
Victor Borge
Who said: “The wine of Pontac, so revered in England, is made on a little rise of ground, lieing open most to the west. It is noe thing but pure white sand, mixed with a little gravel. One would imagin it scarce fit to beare anything… thanks to the rich English who sent orders that it was to be got for them at any price”?
John Locke
Who said: “The French are so proud of their wines that they’ve given some towns the same name as a great vintage.”?
Oscar Wilde
On April 10th, 1663, a young (__BLANK__) wrote in his fine diary about “A sort of French wine, called Ho Bryan that hath a good and most particular taste that I ever met with.”
Samuel Pepys
Who said: ““Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.””?
John Keats
Who said: “I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food.”?
W. C. Fields
Who said:”Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”?
Benjamin Franklin
Who said: “The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.”?
William Shakespeare
Who said: “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”?
Louis Pasteur
Who said: “I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.”?
Thomas Jefferson
Who said: “One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters… But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”?
Charles Baudelaire
Who said: “Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.”?
Lord Byron
Who said: “Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.”?
Ernest Hemingway
Who said:”A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.”?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Who said: “Beer is made by men, wine by God!”?
Martin Luther
Who said:”Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.”?
Horace
Who said:”Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.”?
Alexander Fleming
Who said: In wine, there’s truth.”?
Pliny the Elder
