George Herbert Quotes

I'm a winemaker and a wine collector, so I usually just drink wine.

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family tradition: We would never consider having a meal without wine.

He who loves wine … shall not be rich.

The Prophet hath cursed ten persons on account of wine: one, the first extractor of the juice of the grape for others; the second, for himself; the third, the drinker of it; the fourth, the bearer of it; the fifth, the person to whom it is brought; the sixth, the waiter; the seventh, the seller of it; the eighth, the eater of its price; the ninth, the buyer of it; the tenth, that person who hath purchased it for another.

I'm going to defend to the death my glass of Chardonnay. This is going to be a holy war for us.

Cows' milk and soya milk isn't good for me. Almond milk and rice milk is OK. I don't really drink alcohol, either. Maybe wine but only sometimes.

Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

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

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

I never drink... wine.