Intelligent Quotes

“Wine is a grand thing,” I said. “It makes you forget all the bad.”

“In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as 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.”

“There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening.”

“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”

“When the wine enters, out goes the truth.”

“He that drinks fast, pays slow.”

“Drink water; put the money in your pocket, and leave the dry-bellyache in the punch-bowl.”

“You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés”

“This is a good place,” he said.
“There’s a lot of liquor,” I agreed.

“It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.”

“Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.”

“This is a hell of a dull talk,” Brett said. “How about some of that champagne?”

“Drunkenness, that worst of evils, makes some men fools, some beasts, some devils.”

“I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.”