Quotes edition 3
Champagne Quotes
Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's Champagne!
(Winston Churchill, 1918)
Look into the Future, What do you See? - Oh God, more Champagne! (Katrin Rudd,
2004)
Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone? (Noel Coward)
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne. (Lord Keynes
dying words)
I am easily satisfied with the best. (Winston Churchill, on Champagne)
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the
catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne. (Paul Claudel)
But Champagne is not drinking. (David Niven: When asked why he was drinking)
Alas, I am dying beyond my means. (Oscar Wilde: As he sipped champagne on his
deathbed)
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a Champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
(George Bernard Shaw, Proserpine, Candida, act 3)
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. (Mark Twain)
Confucius once said that plain rice to eat, water to drink, and one's arm as a
pillow were quite enough for earthly happiness. Confucius was a wise and gentle
soul - but he never tasted Champagne. (Bottled Wisdom; by Mark Pollman)
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishmnet the servants invariably drink the
Champagne. (Algernon: From Oscar Wilde Play The Importance of Being Earnest)
One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle
of Champagne by the derriere. (Unknown)
I don't think I've ever drunk Champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast
on several occasions, but never before before. (George Peppard, Breakfast at
Tiffany's, 1961)
Come quickly, I'm drinking stars! (Dom Pérignon)
It is said that dining one night at Potsdam with Wilhelm II, Bismarck was served
German 'Champagne' or Sekt. He tasted it ... and put down his glass. The kaiser
looked at him inquiringly. 'Your Majesty,' said Bismarck, 'I cannot drink German
Champagne.' Wilhelm explained that he had decided to serve Sekt rather than the
Chancellor's beloved Heidsieck, not only for reasons of economy, but as a
patriotic gesture. 'Your Majesty,' said Bismarck simply, 'I am extremely sorry.
My patriotism stops short of my stomach. (Kaiser Wilhelm and Otto von Bismarck)
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It
encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a
challenge to tell lies successfully. (Graham Greene)
There are three intolerable things in life. - cold coffee, lukewarm Champagne,
and overexcited women. (Orson Welles)
Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it.
(Madame de Pompadour)
Champagne, King of Wines and Wine of Kings. (Prince Orlofsky)
After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to
enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent
Champagne and women over to your place by taxi. (P.J. O'Rourke)
Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired. (Brigitte Bardot)
I only drink Champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it
when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it
if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless
I'm thirsty. (Lily Bollinger upon being asked: When do you drink Champagne?)
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient
Champagne. (Dorothy Parker)
Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship. (David
Niven)
The House of Lords is like a glass of Champagne that has stood for five days.
(Leon A Harris)
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of Champagne;
knowing him was like drinking it. (Winston Churchill)
Boswell: I insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgment, as love is
more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of friendship is like that of being
comfortably filled with roast beef; love like being enlivened with Champagne.
Johnson: No, Sir; admiration and love are like being intoxicated with Champagne;
judgment and friendship like being enlivened. (Samuel Johnson, Boswell’s Life of
Johnson)
Mr. Edward Carson, QC: Do you drink Champagne yourself?
Mr. Oscar Wilde: Yes; iced champagne is a favourite drink of mine, strongly
against my doctor’s orders.
Mr. Edward Carson, QC: Never mind your doctor’s orders, sir!
Mr. Oscar Wilde: I never do. (Oscar Wilde, during Wilde’s prosecution of the
Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel, Regina (Wilde) v. Queensberry.)
All these weddings, all these years, all that blasted salmon and Champagne and
here I am on my own wedding day, and I'm... eh... em... eh... still thinking.
(Hugh Grant, Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994)
Do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing around in
Paris, drinking gallons of Champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly
experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my.....hang on.....!
(Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder goes Forth)
Porthos: Champagne?
Athos: We're in the middle of a chase, Porthos.
Porthos: You're right - something red. (The three musketeers escaping from the
Cardinal's guards in his coach in, The Three Musketeers, 1993)
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a
glass of Champagne. (Betty Davis, Old Acquaintance)
And for myself, it gives me great pleasure to smash this very splendid and
worthwhile bottle of Champagne on the noble prow of this very splendid and
worthwhile yellow bulldozer. (Lady Synthia Fitzmelton, The Hichhickers Guide To
The Galaxy)
Champagne yes, philosophy no. (Kit Moresby in The Sheltering Sky:1990)
"Where do you keep your Champagne? Near the furnace? (Lord Rutledge, Dunston
Checks In, 1996)
I could ride you at a gallop until your legs buckled and your eyes rolled up.
I've got muscles you've never even dreamed of. I could squeeze you until you
popped like warm Champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
(Faith, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom
Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad
as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs! (James Bond; Played By Sean
Connery In the 1964 Film: Goldfinger)
Champers sweetie darling, darling sweetie? (Edina & Patsy, AbFab)
Ivan: Why do you take aspirin with Champagne?
Alice: Oh, Champagne gives me a headache. (Author! Author! 1982)
I only drink Champagne when in love and when not. (Christian Pol Roger)
Champagne should be cold, dry and, hopefully, free. (Christian Pol Roger)
Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial. (Oscar Wilde)
I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate . . . and I drink Champagne when I
lose, to console myself. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the
corner. (Marlene Dietrich)
I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two fingerbowls of Champagne and the
scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and
profound. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
In Success you deserve it, and in Defeat you need it! (Winston Churchill)
Cassandra: I don't believe I've ever had French Champagne before...
Benjamin Kane: Oh, actually all Champagne is French, it's named after the
region. Otherwise it's sparkling white wine. Americans of course don't recognize
the convention so it becomes that thing of calling all of their sparkling white
Champagne, even though by definition they're not. (Wayne's World 1992)
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy, upon a mutton chop and a glass of
Champagne. (Jerome K. Jerome 1997)
Champagne with its foaming whirls/ As white as Cleopatra's pearls. (BYRON from
Don Juan)
Not only does one drink Champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one
swallows it ...And one drinks it. (A paraphrase of a saying by KING EDWARD VII)
More than any other wine, Champagne is a luxury brand made and sold by a
hard-headed, hard-working, rather cold-blooded bunch of people, fully aware that
no one needs to drink Champagne, that its glorious patina needs constant
polishing. (Nicholas Faith)
It was part of the Texas ritual. We're rich as son-of-a-bitch stew but look how
homely we are, just as plain-folksy as Grandpappy back in 1836. We know about
Champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy. (Edna Ferber, Giant, 1952)
If the aunt of the Vicar, has never touch liquor, look out when she finds the
Champagne. (Rudyard Kipling)
Fighting is like Champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of
heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be
killed. (Margaret Mitchell, Ashley Wilkes, Gone with the Wind, 1936)
And we meet, with Champagne and a chicken, at last. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
The Lover, 1748)
I don't smoke, I only drink Champagne when I'm lucky enough to get it, my hair
is naturally natural, I live alone...and so do you. (Bunny Watson, Desk Set,
1957)
Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and
Champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes. (James Stewart, The Philadelphia StorY)
Lili, a sizzler at the Fol-de-Rol. A figure like Champagne and a heart like the
cork.(Pontiac, Scene of the Crime, 1949)
I love waking up in the morning not knowing what I'm gonna do or who I'm gonna
meet. Just yesterday I was sleeping under a bridge, and today I'm on the
grandest liner in the world drinking Champagne with you fine people. I'll have
some more please. (Jack Dawson, Titanic, 1997)
On Hitler's 55th birthday, April 20, 1945, Champagne wasn't served. It wasonly
that day that I knew we had lost the war. (Rafael Pallais)
I get no kick from Champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you. (Cole Porter, Anything Goes, 1934)
There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the Champagne bin
has been interfered with. (Tom Stoppard)
Hardly did it appear, than from my mouth it passed into my heart (The Abbe de
Challieu, 1715, upon first tasting Champagne)
Champagne for our real friends and real pain for our sham friends! (Unknown)
How is Champagne made? By sheer genius, sir, sheer genius!(Conversation at
White's Club, London)
I like Champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep. (Art
Buchwald)
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and
Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. (Lord Byron, September
25, 1812)
A single glass of Champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are
braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble. (Winston
Churchill)
Can you imagine opening a bottle of Champagne with a bottle opener. I can't. It
would eliminate half the fun. (Alain De Vogue)
The way I gained by title's
By a hobby which I've got
Of never letting others pay
However long the shot;
Whoever drinks at my expense
Are treated all the same,
From Dukes and Lords to cabmen down,
I make them drink Champagne.' --- (Anonymous, Music Hall Song)
The way I gained my title, by a hobby which I've got --- Of never letting others
pay, however long the shot. Whoever drinks at my expense are treated all the
same. From Dukes and Lords to cabmen down, I make them drink Champagne. (From
the song "Champagne Charlie" by George Leybourne)
Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of Champagne will produce something more
wonderful than would happen without the Champagne. (Helen Gurley Brown)
Champagne is the wine of civilisation and the oil of government. (Talleyrand)
There are only two occasions when I drink Champagne, and these are: when I have
game for dinner and when I haven't. (S. D. Churchill)
If life brings you troubles, drink some Champagne, then your problems will just
become bubbles... (Unknown)
If you have a problem getting the cork out...drink Champagne. (Unknown)
The opening credits roll against stars in deep space with a tiny, distant object
slowly spinning, and becoming identifiable as a bottle of Moet & Chandon Cuvée
Dom Pérignon Vintage 2265, which shatters against the prow of the USS
Enterprise. (Star Trek: Generations, 1994)
Wine Quotes
The British paid £9,000,000,000 to build the Channel Tunnel, just so they coud
get a cheaper bottle of Wine. (Unknown)
Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. (Ernest
Hemingway)
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? (Cardinal Richelieu)
Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would
know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great
fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have
known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not
choose the wine in front of me... (Vizzini, The Princess Bride, 1987)
We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want
them now! (Withnail, Withnail and I, 1987)
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. (Sir Alexander Fleming)
This is one of the disadvantages of wine; it makes a man mistake words for
thoughts. (Quoted by James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791)
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of
a friend; one's present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any
other reason. (Unknown: Latin saying)
If a life of wine, women and song becomes too much, give up the singing.
(Unknown)
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
(Louis Pastuer)
Wine - the intellectual part of the meal. (Alexandre Dumas 1873)
Wine is the thinking person's health drink. (Dr. Phillip Norrie)
Who knows what tomorrow brings?, for today I am already in heaven, sipping wine.
(Linda Kathleen)
Compromises are for relationships, not for wine. (Sir Robert Scott Caywood)
When I read about the evils of drinking wine, I gave up reading. (Unknown)
Consuming wine in moderation daily will help people to die young as late as
possible. (Dr Philip Norrie)
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to a lack of Wine. (Unknown)
Where there is no wine there is no love. (Euripedes)
Wine is light, held together by water. (Galileo)
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for
thoughts. (Samuel Johnson)
A waltz and a glass of wine invite an encore. (Johann Strauss)
Quickly bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may whet my mind and say something
clever. (Aristophanes)
I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember
I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have
consumed two bottles. (Bishop of Seville)
Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by the Gods to
man. (Plato)
One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it, and
one talks about it. (King Edward VII)
Wine is bottled poetry. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. (Alexander Fleming)
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. (Ernest Hemingway)
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most
civilized pleasures. (Unknown)
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. (W. C. Fields)
Wine is life (Petronius)
Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget
his toil. (Lord Byron)
Wine offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any
other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. (Ernest Hemingway)
A man is like a grape and a woman is like a wine, for the two are one of a kind.
The refinement of the grape is a wine, and the refinement of a man is a woman.
(Unknown)
When you stop drinking wine you cease to dream, and when you cease to dream you
cease to live. (Unknown)
Pro bono ab veritas et vino. (Latin: The good of truth and wine)
Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to
stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd
want to have dinner with. (Unknown)
Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to
the mind and then turn full-bodied with age until they go all sour and vinegary
and give you a headache. (Unknown)
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix
emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. (Ernest Hemingway, Count
Mippipopolous, The Sun Also Rises, 1926)
The prohibitionists say that drinking is bad for you, but the Bible says that
Noah made wine and drank it and lived to be 950 years. Show me an abstainer who
ever lived that long. (Unknown)
The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to
conserving the drinking water reserve. (Paul Emil Victor, Polar explorer)
The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She was going out to
get a bottle of wine. Two hours later, the Germans marched into France. (Sam
Diamond, Murder by Death 1976)
The picnic was delicious, the wine was excellent, remind me to send the Cardinal
a note. (Porthos, The Three Musketeers, 1993)
A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar.
When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said:
"A man can live without art, but not without culture. (Unknown)
White Collar Criminal before leaving home to serve a one year sentence:"I'm not
worried about the reds, they'll keep ok, but I am worried about the whites.
(Unknown)
Baron James Rothschild sent Rossini some splendid grapes from his hothouse.
Rossini, in thanking him, wrote, although your grapes are superb, I don t like
my wine in capsules. Rothschild read this as an invitation to send him some of
his celebrated Chateau-Lafite, which he proceeded to do. (Lillie de
Hergermann-Lindencrone, Courts of Memory)
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing
and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which
were better unspoken. (Homer, The Odyssey, Book. XI)
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes,
bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the
accomplishment of our wishes. The life-giving wine cup ... whom has it not made
free even in the pinch of poverty! (Horace)
God made only water, but man made wine. (Victor Hugo, Les Contemplations, 1856)
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for
thoughts. (Samuel Johnson, April 28th 1778)
I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others. (Diogenes)
Wine ... the intellectual part of the meal. (Alexandre Dumas, Le Grand
Dictionnaire de Cuisine, 1873)
Where there is no wine there is no love. (Euripedes)
The custom of saluting/embracing ladies by their relatives and friends was
introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but
to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal
for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery. (Joseph Haydn, Dictionary of
Dates)
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. (Ernest Hemingway)
Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any
other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. (Ernest Hemingway)
In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also
a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a
snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating
and to me as necessary. (Ernest Hemingway)
When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest
in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking. (Alexis
Lichine)
I can certainly see you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here
wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret. (John Cleese, Basil
Fawlty, Fawlty Towers)
I'm drinking some wine, eating some cheese, and catching some rays, you know...
(Oddball, Kelly's Heroes, 1970)
This is a red wine glass. Can I have my water in a water glass? (The Griffin
Mill, Player, 1992)
In vino veritas [In wine is truth]. (Plato, Symposium 217)
I am falser than vows made in wine. (Shakespeare, As You Like It. Act 3, Scene
5, line 73)
Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well. (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing,
Act 3, Scene 5)
I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age. (Steven
Wright)
Wine gives strength to weary men. (Homer, 850 B.C.)
Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and
you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved. (Unknown, Medieval German
saying)
It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, And wine and love have ever been
allies. (Ovid)
I'm so holy that when I drink wine, it turns into water. (Aga Kan III)
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women,
and water the drink of beasts. (Unknown)
But nothing compares to taste and flavour of the "elixir of the gods." (Unknown)
Wine unlocks secrets, bids hopes be certainties, thrust cowards into the fray,
takes loads off anxious hearts, teaches new accomplishments. The life-giving
wine cup ... whom has it not made free even in the pinch of poverty! (Horace)
Other Quotes
Decanter: n. A vessel whose functions are most envied by the human stomach.
(Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary)
Gaudeamus igitur iuvenes dum sumus. Post iucundum iuventutes Post molestam
senectutem Nos habebit humus. (Unknown) So let us rejoice, While we are
young. After happy youth after annoying old age The earth will have us.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead
back to life. (Sir Alexander Fleming)
Never speak disrespectfully of Society... Only people who can't get into it do
that. (Lady Bracknell: From Oscar Wilde Play The Importance of Being Earnest)
Fish fuck in it. (W.C. Fields upon being asked why he did not drink water)
It gives me great pleasure. - (George Bernard Shaw: responded with during a
fashionable English dinner party at where it was the custom of the host to
select subject and person making the toast. In an apparent attempt to tongue-tie
the great literary lion, the host selected the subject of sex, at the time an
unmentionable subject)
Work is the scourge of the drinking classes. (Oscar Wilde)
Abstainer: A weak person who yeilds to the temptation of denying himself a
pleasure. (Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary)
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning,
that's as good as they're going to feel all day. (Frank Sinatra)
Madam, I may be drunk. You are ugly. When a awaken in the morning I shall be
sober! (Winston Churchill)
Remember, when all else fails, life is a fatal sexually transmitted condition,
so enjoy it while you can. (Dr Philip Norrie)
Unknown Lady: To which University, shall I send my son?
Dr Warren: Madam, they drink, I believe, near the same quantity of Port in each
of them. (Dr Warren, The Times of London, circa 1798)
The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.
(William Butler Yeats)
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
(Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls)
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also
keep handy. (W.C. Fields)
Alcohol is a very necessary article it enables Parliament to do things at eleven
at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. (George Bernard
Shaw)
I drink to make other people more interesting. (Unknown)
During the reign of William III, a garden fountain was once used as a giant
punch bowl. The recipe included 560 gallons of brandy, 1200 pounds of sugar,
25,000 lemons, 20 gallons of lime juice, and five pounds of nutmeg. The
bartender rowed around in a small boat, filling up guests' punch cups. (Unknown)
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink; that's the
one thing I'm indebted to her for. (W. C. Fields, Never Give a Sucker an Even
Break)
During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were
compelled to live on food and water for several days. (W.C.Fields, Cuthbert J.
Twilliev My Little Chickadee, 1940)
What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? (W.C. Fields, Larson
E. Whipsnade, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man 1939)
Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember
if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. (Unknown)
Now don't say you can't swear off drinking, it's easy. I've done it a thousand
times. (W. C. Fields, The Temperance Lecture)
I exercise extreme self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin [wine]
before breakfast. (W. C. Fields)
I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach. (W. C. Fields)
Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water. (W. C. Fields,
Life, Jan 6th 1947)
Sorry my fine public servants, but I haven't enough of this nectar to pass about
willy nilly. (W. C. Fields, Comment to policemen who'd pulled him over on
suspicion of drunk driving.)
Ye Gods, no! I couldn't stand the noise. (W. C. Fields, In response to a waiter
who'd offered him a Bromo Seltzer for a hangover)
A man is never drunk if he can lie on the floor without holding on. (Unknown)
May you live as long as you want...And may you never want as long as you live.
(Unknown)