53+ Wine Quotes & Sayings to Inspire, Humour & Make You Thirsty

Who doesn’t have some funny wine quotes to help create some laughter, to inspire or to help market your brand on places like Instagram. Below is a collection of my favourite funny and famous quotes about wine that you can customise as stickers to use around your house, in your marketing, or as Instagram captions.

Grab a glass and enjoy these delicious wine sayings:

Funny wine quotes

• “I googled my symptoms… It turns out I need a bottle or three of wine.” – Casey Bryan
• “Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.” – Anonymous
• “Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” – Pope John XXIII
• “Husbands are like wine; they take a long time to mature.” – Letters to Juliet (2010)
• “So who is this “Moderation” everyone tells me to drink with?” – Annonymous
• “Compromises are for relationships, not wine.” – Sir Robert Scott Caywood

Famous quotes about wine

• “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” – W.C. Fields
• “If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am not drinking any fucking Merlot!”- Sideways (2004)
• “Beer is made by men, wine by God.” – Martin Luther
• “In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
• “Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” – Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational wine quotes

• “Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.” – Alexander Fleming
• “Wine, it’s in my veins and I can’t get it out.” – Burgess Meredith
• “Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.” – José Andres
• “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”- Benjamin Franklin
• “The best way to learn about wine is by drinking.” – Alexis Lichine
• “With wine and hope, anything is possible.” – Spanish proverb
• “Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, and makes weariness forget his toil.” – Lord Byron
• “A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.” -Louis Pasteur
• “Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.” – Ernest Hemingway

Wine quotes about life

• “Life is too short to drink bad wine.” – Anonymous
• “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” – Paulo Coelho
• “Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” – Joan Collins
• “We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”- Eduardo Galeano
• “Either give me more wine, or leave me alone.” – Rumi
• “I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I’m in love and when I’m not.”- Coco Chanel
• “Wine and friends are a great blend.”- Ernest Hemingway
• “Where there’s a wine, there’s a way.” – Anonymous
• “Home is where the wine is.” – Anonymous
• “What do friends and wine have in common? The older, the better.” – Anonymous
• “Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.” – Michael Broadbent
• “Love, like wine, gets better with time.” – Anonymous

Wine quotes for Instagram

• “Spilling a glass of wine is the adult equivalent of letting go of a balloon.”- Anonymous
• “Wine is bottled poetry.”- Robert Louis Stevenson
• “I drink and I know things.” – Tyrion Lannister
• “Working nine to wine.” – Anonymous
• “Wine flies when you’re having fun.”- Anonymous
• “Love the wine you’re with.”- Anonymous
• “A meal without wine is called breakfast.” – Anonymous
• “You look like I need wine.” – Anonymous
• I only drink wine on days that end with a “y.” – Anonymous
• “Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.” – Italian proverb
• “You only live once—so drink great wine.” – Anonymous
• “A good day starts with good coffee and ends with good wine.” – Anonymous
• “Where there is no wine there is no love.” – Euripides
• “A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.” – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• “I love everything old—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.” – Anonymous
• “A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic.” – Kathy Mattea
• “Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.” – Graham Greene
• “Wine is water, held together by sunshine.” – Galileo
• “Wine, because no great story ever started by someone eating a salad.” – Anonymous
• “I shall drink no wine before it’s time! OK, it’s time.” – Groucho Marx
• “It’s time to wine.” – Unknown

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