"Wine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... intersect," are impossibilities, because the ideas denoted by the predicates, round, present, intersect, are contradictory of the ideas denoted by the subjects, square, past, parallel. But walking on water, or turning water into wine, or procreation without male intervention, or raising the dead, are plainly not ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley
... big-bellied glass is the palette I use, And the choicest of wine is my colour; And I find that my nose takes the mellowest hues The ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... and sixteen hundred elephants, which you shall have taken at one hunting about Sigelmes, when you entered into Lybia; and, besides this, you had all the Mecca caravan. Did not they furnish you sufficiently with wine? Yes, but, said he, we did not drink it fresh. By the virtue, said they, not of a fish, a valiant man, a conqueror, who pretends and aspires to the monarchy of the world, cannot always have his ease. God be thanked that ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... was a quiet, red-faced old chap, who seemed to do all Kate told him, and never bothered himself about the business, except when he had to buy fresh supplies in the wine and spirit line. There he was first chop. You couldn't lick him for quality. And so the place ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
... crew," said Priscilla, with a note of scorn in her voice. "If I were to write my family history now! Why, it would be one long continuous blot from beginning to end." She laughed jovially, and helped herself to another glass of wine. ...
— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley
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