"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."
— W.C. Fields

"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

"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast)

"Either give me more wine or leave me alone."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Beer is made by men, wine by God."
— Martin Luther

"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

"'Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...
'But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'
'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!'"
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
— Colette (Oeuvres complètes en seize volumes)

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink,
I feel shame! Then I look into the glass and think
about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this wine, they might be out of work, and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver"
— Jack Handey

"I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."
— Oliver Goldsmith (The Vicar of Wakefield)

"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after."
— George Gordon Byron

"Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages."
— Louis Pasteur

"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

"it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!"
— Kenny Chesney

"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."
— Charles Bukowski (South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life)

"Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"...and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water."
— Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

"It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

"Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human"
— Paul Tillich

"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile"
— Homer

"If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night"
— D.H. Lawrence

"I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine."
— Kyril Bonfiglioli

"[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told."
— Homer (The Odyssey)

"Great wine works wonders and is itself one"
— Edward Steinberg (The Making of a Great Wine: Gaja and Sori San Lorenzo)

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"in the abstract art of cooking,
ingredients trump appliances,
passion supersedes expertise,
creativity triumphs over technique,
spontaneity inspires invention,
and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious."
— Bob Blumer

"There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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

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

"With wine and being lost, with
less and less of both:

I rode through the snow, do you read me
I rode God far--I rode God
near, he sang,
it was
our last ride over
the hurdled humans.

They cowered when
they heard us
overhead, they
wrote, they
lied our neighing
into one of their
image-ridden languages."
— Paul Celan (Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan)

"Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized."
— Andre Simon

"When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face on the cork."
— Miriam Toews (The Flying Troutmans)