Quotes About Books And Wine

#1. Laughter and books and wine are holy things; and living is good; and death is a breathlessness with the whole adventure of finding everywhere the traces of one great beauty...

Henry Rago

#2. Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
All things, in short, to which belong
The charm, the grace that Time
makes strong,
All these I prize, but (entre nous)
Old friends are best!

Henry Austin Dobson

#3. If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. Dedicated ereaders are as sharp as steak knives in doing what they're supposed to do, which is let you read books. The iPad is more like a Swiss Army knife
it can cut the steak and uncork a wine bottle, and there's even a toothpick to use when you're done eating! It's got it all.

Jason Merkoski

#5. A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Rudyard Kipling

#6. My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Marilyn French

#7. I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

P.D. James

#8. My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

#9. Despite the promise of four days of sun and overly sweet wine, Richard was sporting a sour puss. But then that was to be expected - he sold books for a living, after all.

Charlie Hill

#10. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish.

Francesca Lia Block

#11. Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Stephen Fry

#12. Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine.

Matthew Pearl

#13. Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?

Donna Gillespie

#14. Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how to order from a wine list and some who don't. I like wine, but I prefer the company of beer drinkers any day.

Keir Graff

#15. Life is too short to read bad books or drink bad wine.

Joy Daniels

#16. I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.

Wallace Stevens

#17. If the day was bright, I would buy a liter of wine and a piece of bread and some sausage and sit in the sun and read one of the books I had bought and watch the fishing.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. We don't lock up books in this house," Philippe said, "only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.

Deborah Harkness

#19. Give me books, fruit, French wine, fine weather and a little music..

John Keats

#20. Nobody went to bed at seven in Paris, even French children. Les enfants stayed up late at night, he had heard, eating with the adults, sipping red wine, and discussing the latest books and films.

Alexander McCall Smith

#21. A Man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition.

Rudyard Kipling

#22. Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

David Frum

#23. A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.

Susan Vreeland

#24. A paradox: The things you don't need to live - books, art, cinema, wine, and so on - are the things you need to live.

Matt Haig

#25. Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

Holless Wilbur Allen

#26. Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

Danny Tyran

#27. I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

#28. A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Louis Pasteur

#29. I shall conclude with a saying of Alponsus, surnamed the Wise, King of Aragon - that among so many things as are by men possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read!

William Temple

#30. They handed over spider plants in terra-cotta, six-packs, books, bottles of wine. Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners.

Lauren Groff

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

John Keats

#32. Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the other side are reaching for the excuse of lead poisoning. If they can push that idea through, you may wind up still owning your guns but without anything to shoot in them.

Jeff Cooper

#33. 'Dandelion Wine' became one of the few books that I returned to time and again, and while not anywhere near the story crafter as Mr. Bradbury, I hope I managed to absorb by osmosis some of his techniques.

Kim Harrison

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

John Keats

#35. I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

Jonathan Lethem

#36. And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

Toni Morrison

#37. I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

Oliver Goldsmith