Walter Scott Quotes

For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

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.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.

Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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.

I have a glass of wine. Red. Generally when I'm cooking.

Wine always inspires sociability.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.