Champagne has been drunk by many many people over the centuries and has led to some of our more famous counterparts making profound statements\/quotes. Here are just a few of the most famous drinkers and their Champagne based quotes. If you know of or can think of any more please let us know via twitter or email.<\/p>\n
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“in victory, you deserve Champagne, in defeat, you need it” – Napoleon Bonaparte<\/p>\n
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“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” – Madame Lily Bollinger<\/p>\n
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“my only regret in life is that I didn’t drink enough Champagne” – John Maynard Keynes<\/p>\n
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“there comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of Champagne” – Bette Davis<\/p>\n
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“no government could survive without Champagne. Champagne in the throats of our diplomatic people is like oil in the wheels of an engine” – Joseph Dargent<\/p>\n
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“three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content, and sufficient Champagne” – Dorothy Parker<\/p>\n
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“come quickly, I am tasting the stars!” – Dom Perignon<\/p>\n
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“remember gentlemen, it’s not just France we are fighting for, it’s Champagne!” – Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
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“gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne” – Paul Claudel<\/p>\n
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“why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? doesn’t everyone?” – Noel Coward<\/p>\n
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“meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of Champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. ” – Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
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“too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right” – Mark Twain<\/p>\n
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“One glass of champagne and I smile, two and I grin, but three I’m ever so ready to sin.”
– Anastasia Miller<\/p>\n
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“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<\/p>\n
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“Champagne should be cold, dry and, hopefully, free.” – Christian Pol Roger<\/p>\n
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“Pleasure without champagne is purely artificial.” – Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n
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“Champagne makes you feel like it’s Sunday and better days are just around the corner.” – Marlene Dietrich<\/p>\n
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“I drink champagne when I win, to celebrate…and I drink champagne when I lose, to console myself.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte<\/p>\n
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Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.” – Charles Dickens<\/p>\n
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Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.” – Paul Claudel<\/p>\n
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Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and champagne makes you do them.” – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin<\/p>\n
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“If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the champagne.” – Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n
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Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne, and the champagne definitely improves the orange.” – Philip, Duke of Edinburgh<\/p>\n
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I make Champagne for myself. What I can’t drink, I sell!” – Victor Lanson<\/p>\n
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I don’t think I’ve ever drunk Champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before.” George Peppard<\/p>\n
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