Wine Influence Quotes

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

When somebody wants to write an article attacking a scoring system or the influence of wine writers, who's right in the cross hairs? It's not Steve Tanzer, it's not Marvin Shanken, it's me. These other people, it's not like they don't have some influence, and I'm more than happy to share it.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.