Sweet Wine Quotes

• There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.

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  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running   Sweet   Drinking  

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.233

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• These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.

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  Rupert Brooke

  Sweet   Wine   Son  

  New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead"

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• Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

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  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sweet   War   Wine  

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1865). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a collection of memorable passages from the discourses of H. W. Beecher. With a sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room, by Augusta Moore. New edition, revised, and greatly enlarged [of the second series of “Life Thoughts”].”, p.222

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• 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.

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  John Webster

  Wine   Soldier   Vineyards  

  'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2

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

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  John Milton

  Crush   Sweet   Wine  

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.70

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• Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!

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  Li Bai

  Sweet   Horse   Flower  

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• Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing

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  John Denver

  Sweet   Song   Spring  

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• I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again.

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  Sally Jessy Raphael

  Sweet   Wine   Ideas  

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

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  Benjamin Franklin

  Love   Inspirational   Funny  

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.290

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• Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

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  Marge Piercy

  Sweet   Spring   Wine  

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• A meal without wine is like a day without sun

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  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wine   Alcohol   Sun  

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• The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

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  Neil Gaiman

  Sweet   Wine   Poison  

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• A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

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  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine   Bottles   Vineyards  

  Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. And here the art Of molding clay has caught you for the nonce And made your shame our shame ~ Your head in bronze!

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  Edgar Lee Masters

  Sweet   Art   Wine  

  Edgar Lee Masters, “On A Bust”

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• Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

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  Plautus

  Happy Birthday   Anniversary   Wedding  

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• Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

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  Benjamin Franklin

  Sweet   Wine   Vinegar  

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.

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  George Herbert

  Sweet   Wine   Sweet Wine  

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

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