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I 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'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty. ~ Madame Lilly Bollinger

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. ~ Aldous Huxley

Come quickly, I am tasting the stars! ~ Dom Perignon, at the moment he discovered champagne

Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange. ~ Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced, the imagination is agreeably stirred; the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces the contrary effect. Excess causes a comatose insensibility. So it is with war: and the quality of both is best discovered by sipping. ~ Winston Churchill

Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's Champagne! ~ Winston Churchill, WWI

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

In a perfect world, everyone would have a glass of Champagne every evening. ~ Willie Gluckstern

I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate…and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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