Pastoral Resources

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

I was so delirious that I drank a glass of water, thought it wine and got glorious drunk.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Truth comes out in wine.

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.