Quote Genre: Wine

William Shakespeare – ‘O thou invisible spirit of w…

‘O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by let us call thee devil!’

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Robert Burton – ‘I may not here omit those tw…

‘I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind wine and women which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.’

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Athenaeus – ‘On one occasion some one put…

‘On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler and said that it was sixteen years old. It is very small for its age said Gnath

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Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid – ‘Wine gives courage and makes…

‘Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.’

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Dr. Samuel Johnson – ‘One of the disadvantages of …

‘One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.’

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Edward FitzGerald – ‘You know my Friends with wha…

‘You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.’

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Charles Pierre Baudelaire – ‘A sweetheart is a bottle of …

‘A sweetheart is a bottle of wine a wife is a wine bottle.’

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John Gay – ‘From wine what sudden friend…

‘From wine what sudden friendship springs!’

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