“There are few pleasures which loosen the tongue as much as that of sharing wine, glass in hand.”
“a few brown leaves are stuck to the outside of the glass like leather tongues.”
“Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.”
“A nervous silence loosens tongues”
“Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.”
“This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.”