Food & Drink: Wine Quotes

Raise a glass to thoughtful reflections on wine, from vineyard traditions to the simple pleasure of a well-balanced pour. This selection brings together voices that celebrate aroma, terroir, and the art of pairing with food. Whether you are planning a toast, collecting lines for menus, or seeking quiet inspiration, these quotes highlight craft, conviviality, and the moments that gather around the table. Browse, savor, and share with fellow enthusiasts.

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"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"Wine is a peep-hole on a man"

Alcaeus, Poet

Alcaeus

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Wine is bottled poetry"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

Edward Fitzgerald

"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness"

Anacharsis, Philosopher

"Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

William F. Buckley, Jr.

"I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

Paul Lynde

"I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving"

Carol Alt, Model

Carol Alt

"Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

Thomas Keller

"My favorite wines are Zinfandels"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

Thomas Keller

"I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

Thomas Keller

"Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it"

John Cleese, Actor

"Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all"

John Cleese, Actor

"Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour"

Anthony Trollope, Author

Anthony Trollope

"As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

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

Clifton Paul Fadiman, Writer

"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history"

Clifton Paul Fadiman, Writer

"I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port"

Henry Mayhew, Journalist

Henry Mayhew

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