„I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.“
Nikos Kazantzakis9
1883 - 1957Citações relacionadas
„Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?“
— John Gay English poet and playwright 1685 - 1732
The Beggar's Opera (1728), Matt, Act II, sc. i, air 19
„Once wine was the means to artificial happiness; now things are much more sophisticated, and what was one of the great secrets of medicine has become the only bliss many find in this life.“
— Nick Drake (poet) British writer 1961
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun, Ch 10
„As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.“
— Ernest Hemingway, book A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 1
„5744. Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.“
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732), Context: 830. Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.
„I always thought when I got older that I'd be jealous of my children but I'm not. It's the opposite. I love seeing their possibilities. Nothing makes me as happy as sitting at dinner with loved ones, having a glass of wine with a meal that I've cooked. What could be better?“
— John Banville Irish writer 1945
„Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.“
— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939
„As the plane climbed over the town and swung above the sea I knew how it felt to go into exile.“
— Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
Arabian Sands (1959), p. 310.
„Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine“
— Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274
„The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.“
— Aimee Bender Novelist, short story writer 1969
„One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.“
— Victor Hugo, book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
„We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.“
— Eduardo Galeano, book The Book of Embraces
The Book of Embraces (1991), somos todos mortales hasta el primer beso y el segundo vaso
