Diogenes Quotes

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

It would be all right with me. I'd probably get a car and driver out of it.

A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!

Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

People at my level [Unilever CEO] shouldn't be motivated by salary. If you paid me double, I'm not going to work twice as much, because I'm already probably maximizing my time available. And would it change the way I do things? Not really. So, yes, I am fortunate, and I am ashamed about the amount of money I earn.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

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

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

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

I asked for a glass of Chardonnay. And in a 9/11-like twist, they didn't have any. They offered me Pinot.

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

I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

Mmm. O positive, my favorite.” “Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon.” “So it is,” said Adrian, straight-faced. “My mistake.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.

A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints.

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.