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Tag Name "Claret" (15)

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Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel Johnson
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Depends on the evening. A good red wine is nice in cold weather. A Claret or a Rioja. I've got a good gin we make from damson plums. And you can't beat a glass of champagne every now and again.
Alan Titchmarsh
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
Charles Lamb
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I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets I shall live long.
Evelyn Waugh
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
James Boswell
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My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.
John Keats
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If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
Moliere
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I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.
Denis Healey
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If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.
Henry Sambrooke Leigh
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I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.
John Cleese
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They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
Jonathan Swift
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Some people tell you you should not drink claret after strawberries. They are wrong.
William Maginn