Wine And Dine Quote Quotes

Well I sup and well I dine,
When I drink my frolic wine. ~ Robert Herrick

Enjoy the wine, don't spill the night… ~ Talismanist Giebra

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine. ~ Horace

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

When you can't handle the heady concoction of wine and women, it's time to pack up your bags and quit. ~ Anurag Shourie

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? ~ Cardinal Richelieu

My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and. ~ Karen McDougal

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything. ~ Jim Dine

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

I beg you come tonight and dine
A welcome waits you and sound wine
The Roederer chilly to a charm
As Juno's breasts the claret warm ... ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. ~ Aristophanes

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely. ~ Isabella Beeton

God made only water, but man made wine. ~ Victor Hugo

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author.
Wine is bottled poetry ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. ~ Kathy Mattea

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others. ~ Diogenes

You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing. ~ Seth Klarman

Wine give strenght to weary men. and
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
To drown the bitterness of cares. ~ Homer

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

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup. ~ Maxwell Bodenheim

Ah, wine. Wine was my friend. Wine understood me. Wine knew that it was entirely possible to be one hundred percent happy for your sisters and also ten percent jealous, because Wine does not care about mathematics. ~ Melanie Harlow

Wine is to women as duct tape is to men, it fixes EVERYTHING! ~ Tanya Masse

Then wine me, dine me and sixty-nine me," she growled. "Feel free to reverse the order. ~ Susan Gabriel

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Most people whom you may view as wine experts are usually just good at one thing: winemakers are good at making wine, sommeliers at talking about it, and wine journalists at drinking it for free. ~ Olivier Magny

There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost. ~ Ann Fairbairn

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion. ~ Idries Shah

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there. ~ Jim Dine

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine? ~ Isak Dinesen

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary ... ~ Ernest Hemingway,

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak. ~ James Joyce

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally, ~ Jim Dine

Dine on little, and sup on less. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Water IS the most important element on the face of the earth, because without water, there would be no WINE and without WINE I would be living in a PADDED CELL! ~ Tanya Masse

The simplest definition of a great bottle of wine is when you feel sad because the bottle is empty. ~ Tony Margiotta

At the same cost spent on occasional pizzas or dine outs, one can cover premium costs - for lasting protection - with insurance. ~ Meera Srinivasan

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer, ~ S. S. Van Dine

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. ~ Horace

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. ~ Moliere

People should have fun with wine. A bottle should sit on your dinner table like all of the other condiments. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

To dine with a glacier on a sunny day is a glorious thing and makes common feast of meat and wine ridiculous. The glacier eats hills and sunbeams. ~ John Muir

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. ~ Heraclitus

The wine-cup is the little silver well,
Where truth, if truth there be
Doth dwell. ~ William Shakespeare

Best wines with character have abyss within. ~ Talismanist Giebra

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence ... ~ Frances Trollope

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

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece. ~ Jim Dine

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. ~ John Keats

Wine knows that having passion for life is an art itself. ~ Talismanist Giebra

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde

We're all servants. Some to our fellow men. Some to our vices. ~ S. S. Van Dine

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. ~ Benjamin Franklin

They have real glasses and real wine of three kinds, namely, blackthorn wine, berberris wine, and cowslip wine, ~ J.M. Barrie

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight. ~ Fernand Point

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ~ Alexander Pope

When it comes to picking wine and cutting through the marketing smokes, bottom line is: two things really matter. First is how the grapes were farmed, and second is whether or not you like it. The rest is vastly BS. ~ Olivier Magny

Wine is just a conversation waiting to happen. ~ Jessica Altieri

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. ~ Jim Dine

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. ~ Walter Scott

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. ~ John Webster

My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.' ~ Jesse McCartney

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
and the deader the corpse the better. ~ S. S. Van Dine

But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons. ~ S. S. Van Dine

At the end of the day, it's just grape juice. No one needs anything that I make. The last thing we need is another wine on the shelf. So that just makes me grateful for the people who do enjoy it. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures ~ Kent Bach

One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World. ~ Joseph Henshaw

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. ~ Alexander Fleming

We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell. ~ Richard S. Ewell

Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium. ~ S. S. Van Dine

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine. ~ Padma Lakshmi

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead ~ Salvador Dali

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

Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders. ~ S. S. Van Dine

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out. ~ Robin Williams

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making. ~ Jim Dine

Drinking wine was not historically limited to people who could afford it. Western and European culture turned it into an elite thing. Winemakers were farmers and field workers. Everyday people. And that's who should enjoy and have access to wine. ~ Andre Hueston Mack

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. ~ John Milton

The key to enjoying wine isn't just to guzzle a lot of expensive wine, it's to learn about wine. ~ Jen Wilkin

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem. ~ Jimmy Buffett

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine. ~ Tom Araya

My glass of wine and I are besties. ~ Mila Kunis

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. ~ Jim Dine

When it comes to wine and buttocks, the redder, the better. ~ Danny Tyran

Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1. ~ Luana Ehrlich

Every big dream begins with a little nap. ~ Yohann Dafeu

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man. ~ Plato

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

You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it ~ John McCain

Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood. ~ John Wycliffe

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out. ~ Burgess Meredith

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. ~ Omar Khayyam

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. ~ William Shakespeare

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite. ~ Lynn Kurland

A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a way to write off his wine cellar. It's a dated view. Wine writers now use computers. ~ Frank J. Prial

Good wine is good. Great wine is great. More wine is better. ~ Ruth Fertel

Hmmm ... cooking with wine? I usually drink wine while cooking ... I do a good braised short ribs with cabernet, though. We're big red wine drinkers here. All that research showing that it's good for you takes the guilt away. ~ Alafair Burke