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title: 22 funny, wise, witty and thought-provoking wine quotes
description: We love a good quotation, especailly when it helps us smile and enjoy a glass of wine more. So here are 22 of our best wine quotes.
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# 22 wine quotes to raise your glass to
[By Simon Collins](https://vincarta.com/blog/author/simon-collins)
Published 22 April 2019 Updated October 1 2024
A lot has been said when it comes to wine. For hundreds of years, the greatest writers, poets, scientists, and cultural icons have been sharing their two cents. And because **we love our wine quotes** at Vincarta, we thought it was about time we collected some of our favourites onto a list. Here are 22 of the best.
As Benjamin Disraeli said:
> **‘The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.’**
We couldn’t have put it better ourselves. So, drink deep from this list of wine quotations, and **share your favorite** in the comments section.
> **‘Beer is made by men, wine by God.’ –** Martin Luther
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> **‘Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.’** – John Keats
> **‘Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.’ –** Benjamin Franklin
> **God made only water, but man made wine.’** – Victor Hugo
> **‘I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.’ –** William Shakespeare, As You Like It
> **‘Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.’ –** Joan Collins
> **‘Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.’ –** Pope John XXIII
> **‘A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.’ **– Ernest Hemingway
> **‘Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.’ –** Louis Pasteur
> **‘Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.’ –** Napoleon Bonaparte
> **‘Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.’ –** Ralph Waldo Emerson
> **‘To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.’ –** New York Times, 1967
> **‘Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.’ –** Francis Bacon
> **‘Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.’ –** Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
> **‘I 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’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it — unless I’m thirsty.’ –** Madame Bollinger
> **‘My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.’ –** Charles Bukowski, South of No North
> **‘A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.’ –** Robert Louis Stevenson
> **‘Artists and poets still find life’s meaning in a glass of wine.’ –** Joy Sterling
> **‘Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.’ –** Michael Broadbent
> **‘The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.’ –** George Herbert
> **‘In wine there’s truth.’ –** Alcaeus
> **‘God made Cabernet Sauvignon. The devil made Pinot Noir.’ –** André Tchelistcheff
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