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Upon tasting Champagne for the first time, DOM PERIGNON said:
"Come quickly, I'm drinking stars!"
"I 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'm not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise I never touch it unless I'm thirsty."
MADAME BOLLINGER, one of the "Grandes Dames" of Champagne
"I make wine for myself.
What I can't drink, I sell!"
VICTOR LANSON, of Champagne Lanson
"Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I feel tired,"
said
actress BRIGITTE BARDOT in a 1984 New York times interview, six months after her
50th birthday.
NOEL COWARD is reported to have said:
"Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?"
"If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor,
watch out when she finds the Champagne."
RUDYARD KIPLING observed.
BYRON from Don Juan:
"Champagne with its foaming whirls/ As white as Cleopatra's pearls."
"Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it."
MADAME DE POMPADOUR is reputed to have said.
"Not only does one drink Champagne,
but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it
...And one drinks it."
A paraphrase of a saying by KING EDWARD VII.
NAPOLEON is rumored to have said of Champagne:
"In victory you deserve it, in defeat you need it."
"I wish I'd drunk more Champagne."
The dying words of LORD KEYNES
CHURCHILL used to say:
"I am easily satisfied with the best. "He was attached to Pol Roger.
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