P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'

Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke.

A salad is not a meal, it is a style.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.

Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women.

City wits, country humorists.

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.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know.