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40 cool, clever and funny quotations about champagne
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How can we improve on this list of quotations about champagne? Enjoy them with a glass of bubbly, of course. Trust me.
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By Kennedy Pires
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Everybody, including me, occasionally loves a funny or inspirational quote. I also particularly like champagne. Or Champagne if you prefer. Sparkling wine is enjoyable as well. With that in mind, here is a list of 40 quotations about champagne that I've collected over the last little while. I hope they, along with a tall, slender flute of perfectly chilled champagne, make your day.
35 quotations about champagne
1. "Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!"
~DOM PERIGNON, upon his first taste of champagne
2. "One glass of champagne and I smile, two and I grin, but three I'm ever so ready to sin."
~ANASTASIA MILLER
3. "One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere."
~MARK TWAIN
4. "Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
~GRAHAM GREENE
5. "There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."
~BETTE DAVIS
6. "My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne."
~JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
7. "I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty."
~LILY BOLLINGER
What brand of champagne does James Bond prefer? This and more in our Martinis and Madmen quiz.
8. "Why do I drink champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?"
~NOEL COWARD
9. "Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right."
~MARK TWAIN
10. "Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."
~DOROTHY PARKER
11. "I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between."
~FERNAND POINT
12. "Pleasure without champagne is purely artificial."
~OSCAR WILDE
13. "Champagne should be cold, dry and, hopefully, free."
~CHRISTIAN POL ROGER
14. "After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
~P.J. O'ROURKE
As a challenge, I substituted beer for champagne in the classic Seelbach Cocktail to create my very own Beerbach Cocktail. Seriously. It's not bad. Honest.
15. "Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner."
~MARLENE DIETRICH
16. "Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne."
~HELEN GURLEY BROWN
17. "Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
~TOM WAITS
18. "I drink champagne when I win, to celebrate…and I drink champagne when I lose, to console myself."
~NAPOLEON
19. "Remember, gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's champagne!"
~WINSTON CHURCHILL
20. "There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with."
~TOM STOPPARD
Click here for 20 more quotations about champagne.
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