Famous Wine Quotes

No doubt that wine has been an important part of history!

One of the most unique and famous wine quotes has to be the one by Famous Astronomer, Gailileo who said: “Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”

Through the ages wine has been celebrated in wine maps, literature, daily life and famous quotes about wine.

Below Are a Few of Our Favorite Wine Quotes

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”
-Benjamin Franklin
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“I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence…luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.”
Sylvia Plath
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“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
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[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool—it drives the man to dancing… it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.”
― Homer
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“I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I’m like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn’t matter which wine.”
― Pablo Picasso
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“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
― Gailileo
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“I have lived temperately… I double the doctor’s recommendation of a glass and a half of wine each day and even treble it with a friend.”
– Thomas Jefferson