The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

-1st Earl
Attributed.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne orhigh heels, and onemust be prepared to suffer for it.

-Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold
  The Title, act1.

There are two ways you can tell when a man is lying†when he says he can drink champagne all night and not get drunk†[and] when he says he understands Russians.

-Bohlen, Charles Eustis
Quoted in the NewYork Times, 26 Dec1993.

It was part of theTexas ritual† We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

-Ferber, Edna
  Giant, ch.2.

In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  The Great Gatsby, ch.3.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

-Mitchell, Margaret
   Ashley Wilkes. Gone  with  the Wind, ch.31.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
Quoted in Marion Meade Dorothy Parker (1988).

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat, one needs it.

-Pol-Roger, Christian
  'Champagne, a Magnum Opus', in the NewYorkTimes, 31 Dec.

   I get no kick from champagne; Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So tell me why should it be true That I get a kick out of you?

-Porter, Cole
  'I Get a Kick Out ofYou', from the show Anything Goes.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Proserpine. Candida, act 3.