As with new wine intoxicated both They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them breeding wings Wherewith to scorn the earth.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.1007^10.

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.1418.

Venice will linger in your mind†and wherever you go in life you will feel somewhere over your shoulder, a pink, castellated, shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinnacles of the Serenissima. There's romance for you! There's the lust and dark wine of Venice! No wonder George Eliot's husband fell into the Grand Canal.

-Morris,Jan formerly James Morris
  Venice.

Here is the ecstasy Of sun-fed wine and song: Drink! it is melody Under a kurrajong.

-Neilson,John Shaw
'Under a Kurrajong', stanza1, in R H Croll (ed) Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934).

Oh, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise: How given for naught her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine.

-Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
  TheAngel in the House, bk.1,The Betrothal, canto 3, prelude 3,'Unthrift'.

   Vulgoque veritas iam attributa vino est. And truth has come to be proverbially credited to wine.

-Pliny full name  GaiusPlinius Secundus known as  the Elder
AD 77  Historia Naturalis, bk.14, section 28 (translated by H Rackham).The phrase is often rendered as'in vino veritas'.

And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.

-Pope, Alexander
  Odyssey, bk.14, l.520^1.

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed 'only two dramatic featuresöthe wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.'

-Powell, Anthony Dymoke
  TheAcceptanceWorld, ch.4.

Their beer was strong; their wine was port; Their meal was large; their grace was short. They gave the poor the remnant meat, Just when it grew not fit to eat.

-Prior, Matthew
  'An Epitaph', l.29^32.

Botticelli isn't a wine, you Juggins! Botticelli's a cheese!

-Punch

L'odeur du vin, o"   combien plus est friand, riant, priant, plus ce¤  leste et de¤  licieux que d'huile! The odour of wine, oh how much sweeter, more cheerful, pleasing, heavenlyand delicious it is than oil!

-Rabelais, Fran c° ois
  Gargantua, Prologue de l'auteur.

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. Theyall require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.

-Marquis of
  Letter to Lord Lytton,15 Jun. Quoted in Lady Gwendolen Cecil Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury (1921^32), vol.2, ch.4.

  A weary lot is thine, fair maid, A weary lot is thine! To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, And press the rue for wine!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Rokeby, canto 3, stanza 28,'Song'.

Gin by pailfuls, wine in rivers, Dash the window-glass to shivers! For three wild lads were we, brave boys, And three wild lads were we; Thou on the land, and I on the sand, And Jack on the gallows-tree!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Guy Mannering, ch.34.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Charles Surface.The School for Scandal, act 3, sc.3.

Bring hither the pink and purple columbine, With gillyflowers: Bring coronation, and sops in wine, Worn of paramours. Strew me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Shepherd's Calendar,'April', l.136^41.

   Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the belly full, Pour out to all that will, And sprinkle all the posts and walls with wine, That they may sweat, and drunken be withal.

-Spenser, Edmund
  Epithalamion, section14.

I beg you listen to this adviceö When you get wine, be sure to drink it.

-T'ao Ch'ien
c.400  AD  Collected in Substance, Shadow and Spirit, translated byArthurWaley.

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.1, stanza1.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

-Wycherley,William
  The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.