#wine

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#wine #women #love

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. ↗

— John Keats

#wine #music

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#nature

In wine, there's truth. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#wine #nature

I would drink that whole bottle if I knew it wouldn’t get me completely drunk. I miss wine.” “Um, you haven’t had it for one night, and you miss it?” “Clearly, you underestimate my relationship with wine and what I do on the weekends when I’m by myself reading. ↗

— Rachel Van Dyken

#reading #the-bet #wine #relationship

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#dreams

Either give me more wine or leave me alone. ↗

— Rumi

#alone

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#poetry #virtue #wine #virtue

There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time). ↗

— Roman Payne

#drunkenness #happiness #payne #rest #roman

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#smile #summer #wine #summer