Port Wine Houses

Famous quotes containing the words port, wine and/or houses:

    “Through the port comes the moon-shine astray!
    It tips the guard’s cutlass and silvers this nook;
    But ‘twill die in the dawning of Billy’s last day.
    A jewel-block they’ll make of me to-morrow,
    Pendant pearl from the yard-arm-end
    Like the ear-drop I gave to Bristol Molly—
    O, ‘tis me, not the sentence they’ll suspend.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Good wine needs no bush,
    And perhaps products that people really want need no
    hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
    Why not?
    Look at pot.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:7.