Why do we drink wine?
Wine has been around for so long, ever since people began looking for ways to celebrate, relax, or simply gather with loved ones.
What you will discover below is a collection of quotes with and about wines and we are sure that you will find at least one or two quotes that will bring a smile to your face or why not, that will make you open a bottle of wine and enjoy its fragrance and aroma.
The best quotes about wine
- “It is good to remember that there are five reasons for drinking wine: the arrival of a friend; current or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or for any other reason.”
Latin proverb
- “Wine is bottled poetry.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
- "God created water; but man created wine."
Victor Hugo
- "Up until the age of 40, food is beneficial. After 40, wine is beneficial."
Talmud
- “Wine gladdens the heart of man, and joy is the mother of all virtues.”
J.W. Goethe
- "The great evil of wine is that it first gets on your feet, that's why it's a strange fighter."
Titus Maccius, 190 BC
- “Wine urges me! Fascinating wine urges even a wise man to sing and laugh softly and stirs him to dance and utter words that were better left unsaid.”
Homeric
- "When people drink, they suddenly become rich and successful people, they win all the lawsuits, they are happy and help their friends.
Quickly, bring me a cup of wine, so I can wet my mind and say something intelligent!”
Aristophanes
- "In vino veritas!"
Plato
- "I intend to die in a tavern; let the wine be placed near my mouth, so that when the angelic choirs come, they may say - 'Lord, have mercy on this drinker!'"
By Nugis Curialium
- "From wine springs the most sudden friendship!"
John Gay 1685 – 1732
- "To win you must add water to the wine until there is no drop of wine left."
Jules Renard 1864 – 1910
- “Wine gives courage and makes men more passionate.”
Ovidiu
- "Music is the wine that fills the glass of silence."
Robert Fripp
- "Despair is the vinegar that flows from the wine of hope."
Austin O'Malley
- "In water, man sees his own image. But in wine, man embraces the heart of another."
French Proverb
- “I drink wine and eat chicken. And that’s perfect!”
Dracula
- “Dynamite is like wine. It gets better with age.”
Last of the Dogmen (1995)
- "The last time I trusted a woman was in Paris in 1940. She went to buy a bottle of wine and two hours later, the Germans invaded France."
Five Detectives at Midnight (1976