Charles Dickens Quotes about Wine

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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Friendship, Wine, Flames

'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1841) ch. 7 (Dick Swiveller)

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

Charles Dickens

Drinking, Wine, Champagne

"Household Words: A Weekly Journal".

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

Wine, Men, Envy

Charles Dickens (1856). “Household Words”, p.504

There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

Charles Dickens

Coffee, Food, Wine

Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.349

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Charles Dickens

Wine, Paris, Six

Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

Charles Dickens

Twilight, Wine, Character

Charles Dickens (1858). “Bleak House ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.180

... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.

Charles Dickens

Funny, Humorous, Wine

Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.65