Top 14 Quotes About French Wines
#1. At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#2. The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
Carole Bouquet
#3. I identified historical hierarchical division of the arts into fine arts and craft as a major force in the marginalisation of women's work.
Rozsika Parker
#4. Go my friend
bestow your love
even on your enemies
if you touch their hearts
what do you think will happen.
Rumi
#5. As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam's rib. Now, at the other end of his life, these decades later, he knows it was because the rib is close to the heart.
Nadeem Aslam
#6. What power that girl wielded, though there was nothing striking or unusual about her - unless one considered her long braid and her common sense!
Knut Hamsun
#7. I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'
Gerald Asher
#9. She meditated upon a lie. This is the essence of temptation.
Jim Berg
#10. Humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature.
Marc Bekoff
#11. What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,
For good things, oft, are not so near;
A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,
Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#12. Never forget that the circumstances of your life for tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct today.
Emmet Fox
#13. The wisdom of spiritual direction is precisely that we refuse to stand between God and the person who so needs to hear God for himself, for herself.
Gordon T. Smith
#14. One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.
Meister Eckhart