Quotes by Burton, Robert

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond a >>

A mere scholar, a mere ass. >>

What can't be cured must be endured. >>

Quotations about Wine

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to m >>

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it o >>

It's a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you' >>

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.

Burton, Robert