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Good wine needs no bush. - William Shakespeare I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in't; said to be something imperfect in favoring the first complaint; hasty and tinder-like upon too trivial motion; one that converses more with the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the morning. - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Menenius at II, i) Give me a bowl of wine. In this I bury all unkindness. Cassius. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii) Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii) O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii) Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii) Wine is bottled poetry. - Robert Louis Stevenson 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. - Richard Henry Stoddard, A Jar of Wine Wine has drowned more than the sea. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims (968) When the wine's in, murder will out. - The Talmud, Talmud, Erubin (65) A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him. - Henry David Thoreau Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. - Tosafot He has had a smack of every sort of wine, from humble port to Imperial Tokay. - Rev. James Townley, High Life below Stairs The hop for his profit I thus do exalt, It strengthened drink, and it favoureth malt: And being well brewed, long kept it will last, And drawing abide--if you draw not too fast. - Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie--A Lesson to Plant A Good Hop-Yard (ch. XLIII) The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. - Bernard De Voto, in "Harper's Magazine" And must I wholly banish hence These red and golden juices, And pay my vows to Abstinence, That pallidest of Muses? - Sir William Watson (2), To a Maiden who bade me shun Wine Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. - William Carlos Williams Displaying page 5 of 5 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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