Quotes About Port Wine

#1. Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

John Betjeman

#2. If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

Hannah Storm

#3. God save him, she smelled of a field of roses and tasted sweeter than port wine.
Drawing her hands over her mouth Charlotte gasped. "Hugh. How did we end up on the bed?"
"I think we must have floated," he whispered.

Amy Jarecki

#4. He was California from the tips of his port wine loafers to the buttoned and tieless brown and yellow checked shirt inside his rough cream sports jacket.

Raymond Chandler

#5. Marrying. Oh, God. Buoyed temporarily by port wine and cream lace, I had momentarily managed to ignore the significance of the occasion.

Diana Gabaldon

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

Honore De Balzac

#7. Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

Kristin Hannah

#8. I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

George Mikes

#9. Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Evelyn Waugh

#10. No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

James Boswell

#11. A man thinking with the core of his heart is always willing to change to accept his mistakes while others just crib and duck the mistakes to find fault with others only.

Anuj

#12. Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

Donalyn Miller

#14. I have been digging through graves looking for proof that civilizations, people and stories don't really ever die, but what I've learned, over and over, is that they always do.

Zoe Klein

#15. All government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

Emma Goldman

#16. One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

John Barrow

#17. I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Sun Myung Moon

#18. If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

Hillary Clinton

#19. Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.

David Niu

#20. May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

Truth Devour

#21. Starling looked at Crawford steadily, but she was too still. "Hannibal the Cannibal," she said.

Thomas Harris

#22. I keep thinking about all the time away from my family this will cause, and the time away from the other family at Pixar," Jobs said. "But the only reason I want to do it is that the world will be a better place with Apple in it.

Walter Isaacson

#23. Nanny Ogg appreciated fine wine in her very own way. It would never have occurred to Casanunda that anyone would top up white wine with port merely because she'd reached the end of the bottle.

Terry Pratchett