If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wine-glass to the light a...nd look judicial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable.... It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the gentleness of wine in his fingertips, where do these hands come from?... I was born a glass baby and nobody picked me up except to wash the dust off me. He has picked me up and licked me alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear you were seen running through Portugal in used B.V.D.'s, chewing ground glass and collecting material for a story about bou...le players; that you were publicity man for Lindbergh; that you have finished a novel a hundred thousand words long consisting entirely of the word "balls" used in new groupings; that you have been naturalized a Spaniard, dress always in a wine-skin with "zipper" vent and are engaged in bootlegging Spanish Fly between St. Sebastian and Biarritz where your agents sprinkle it on the floor of the Casino. I hope I have been misinformed but, alas!, it all has too true a ring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thales claimed that everything was water. He also put wine into water to sterilize it. Did he really believe he was putting water ...into water to sterilize it? Parmenides, like most Greeks, knew that wine was not water. But while lifting a glass of wine to his lips, he denied that motion was possible. Did he really believe that the glass was not moving when he lifted it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention.... A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in th...e slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack ... to the feast, from the conversation at the local café to the speech at a formal dinnerLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »