English Wine Quotes

#1. I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.

Santosh Kalwar

#2. English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

Jay Rayner

#3. I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Peter Ustinov

#4. I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

William Golding

#5. Holy crap, you are like a dog with a bone," I commented to Ryan.
"Or just one with a boner.

Stacey Marie Brown

#6. Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

Honore De Balzac

#7. The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Oscar Wilde

#8. The English were fascinated with the Italian people and their amazing Epicurean culture. Italian poetry, painting, pornography, music, drama, fashion, wine, women, cheese, anything Italiano was a premium commodity in London during Shakespeare's day.

Mark Lamonica

#9. I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.

Todd English

#10. When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

Ted Rall

#11. I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty.

Andrea Parker

#12. The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

William Nicholson

#13. But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.

Marc Aronson

#14. Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy.

Mario Puzo

#15. All of us together were of a generation born of old country people who spoke English with an accent and prayed in another language, who drank red wine and cooked their food in the old country way, and peeled apples and pears after dinner.

Robert Laxalt

#16. She rose with the grace that was inherent to her every move ... Perhaps she did everything to a rhythm only she could hear.

Eloisa James