Cork Quotes

“When you're corked...you're corked!”

“If my heart was a bottle, your kiss would be the cork that seals in our love.”

“A weathered cork sat inside the box lined with green velvet. It had turned a darker brown and was a little shriveled, but the name Moet & Chandon was still clearly visible.Vivien reached inside and pulled out her mother's cork. The one she'd searched for in the bed of red impatiens. To anyone else, it was nothing. Just a weathered piece of nothing. To Vivien, it was everything.”

“He could pass off the inferior bottles on tables seven and four. Table seven knew nothing of wine, sending back a bottle of Riesling as "corked" because it had bits of cork in it, the imbeciles. Table four had gulped down a very special old pale brandy as though it was common wood alcohol, which was probably what they had been drinking because they had said that his brandy lacked bite. They deserved inferior burgundy. The bottles that had been stored too close to the stove might have enough bite by now for table four. A wine waiter's revenge may be long in coming, but it arrives in the end.”

“The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.”

“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?”

“That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.”

“I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.”

“Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.”

“So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit.”