These red wine quotes will inspire you. Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored grape varieties.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging red wine quotes, red wine sayings, and red wine proverbs.
Best Red Wine Quotes
- “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!” ~ Hilaire Belloc
- “A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don’t like to throw up.” ~ Denise Richards
- “Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” ~ Pope John XXIII
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“Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.” ~ Homer
- “White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.” ~ James Joyce
- “When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.” ~ Amy Lowell
- “One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.” ~ Mark Twain
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“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.” ~ Eugene O’Neill
- “The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don’t do it unless you’re willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.” ~ Jim Harrison
- “What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?” ~ Isak Dinesen
- “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 behavior?” ~ Kristin Davis
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“Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” ~ C. E. M. Joad
- “The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It’s like a good red wine Give it time.” ~ Cecilia Bartoli
- “I drink red wine on ice to water it down.” ~ Diane Keaton
- “I’m on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.” ~ Bam Margera
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“Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.” ~ Brigitte Bardot
- “It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr’d.” ~ Walter Scott
- “And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Candlelight and red wine? I don’t know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.” ~ Madi Diaz
- “I’ve got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.” ~ Jane Goodall
- “Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you’re vegan, you’re annoying.” ~ Demetri Martin
- “This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place.” ~ Anthony Bourdain , Red Wine quotes night
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“If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.” ~ Eric Stoltz
- “Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.” ~ Pablo Neruda
- “Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine…and ask me to supper. I’ll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another’s and therefore in the right place.” ~ M. F. K. Fisher
- “I like red wine because it’s more sophisticated, more complex, and mature. It’s a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either.” ~ Mick Hucknall
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“I don’t smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.” ~ Andrea Navedo
- “Cacao has the highest antioxidant concentration of any major food in the world. Cacao is thirty times higher in antioxidants than red wine, twenty times more potent in antioxidants than blueberries, three times higher than acai, and twice as much as Chaga mushrooms. These antioxidants protect our cells from free radical damage and therefore contribute to our longevity and state of well-being.” ~ David Wolfe
- “Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, “White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and … we’re alcoholics, aren’t we?” ~ Jimmy Fallon
- “What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia’s useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.” ~ Louis Aragon
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“I really like the melody “Red Wine Is Good For My Heart” and people respond to it. I decided to put it on the album.” ~ Cheyenne Jackson
- “Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with aged, graying men.” ~ Henrik Vibskov
- “A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often did. I was working on a pilot. My grandma was very sick at the time. She died of complications from alcoholism. She always used to say [in his grandma’s voice], “Red wine is good for my heart. That’s what my doctor said.” And we’d say, “Yeah, but not for breakfast.” Unfortunately, it was the thing that killed her. I felt inspired to write a song about her and what that meant for her life and for all of us. I was writing it in Michael’s house.” ~ Cheyenne Jackson
- “I love that red wine is good for you. Isn’t that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things in life like Red wine, in conjunction with a lap dance, while watching NFL football, is the best cardiovascular workout you can have.” ~ Dom Irrera , Red Wine quotes love
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“The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
- “I try to get seven to eight hours of sleep. Wash my hands a lot, take a few supplements, like omega-3 and vitamin D. When I feel a cold coming on, I pop some zinc. I do my best to eat a low-sodium, high-fiber diet. I drink mostly water or coconut water. I don’t smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.” ~ Andrea Navedo
- “The idea for me came when I was watching a 60 Minutes segment about resveratrol, the chemical in red wine that lets you live longer, supposedly. And they were like, “Who knows, maybe one day it will help to cure aging.” And I thought, “Well, if they did that, we’d all kill each other.” And then I laughed, and then I thought about how precisely that would happen. That’s how the book came to be.” ~ Drew Magary
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I bring full-flavored wine out of a barrel found
Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
When Alexander’s empire passed, they slept so sound.” ~ William Butler Yeats -
“No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.” ~ Peter Jackson
- “My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We’re too old to drink cheap wine, and we don’t.” ~ Paul Henderson
- “Ive always loved my red wine, and when Im not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so its one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out.” ~ Amanda Donohoe
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“I’ll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.” ~ Rod Stewart
- “Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.” ~ Fran Lebowitz
- “O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,–sweeter days are thine!” ~ Helen Hunt Jackson
- “Customers should complain more. You know, food’s expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They’re all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. ‘You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'” ~ Gordon Ramsay
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“Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.” ~ Mario Lemieux
- “Holiday? Is like, what? I’m a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That’s my perfect holiday.” ~ Melanie Laurent
- “In all this welter of women I still hadn’t got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “If I’m still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre–the poems, the poems!–in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac’s horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford’s poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it’s all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.” ~ Sarah Vowell
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“The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “Hiram!’ Shelton ran to Hi’s side. ‘Aren’t you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!’ ‘Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.’ He winced as Shelton poked his belly. ‘But I’m not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.” ~ Kathy Reichs
- “I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.” ~ Catherynne M. Valente
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“It’s all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.” ~ Kate Moss
- “I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.” ~ Erin Daniels
- “I’m very surprised – midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn’t think I’d be standing here with a trophy in my hands.” ~ Graeme McDowell
- “It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.” ~ Mary Abigail Dodge
- “I yell and scream like they do. I’m the worst of them. Totally. I’m a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it – started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine, and flying off the handle.” ~ John Kirwan
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“I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine, and plenty of truffle cheese.” ~ Craig Kilborn
- “If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you’re in a good place and you’re in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.” ~ Salma Hayek
- “I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.” ~ Charles Bowden
- “Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be China.” ~ Kevin Zraly
