Ok, so you've all endured rambling reviews and digressive diatribes. Here's an easy one to digest: my top ten quotes about Champagne. I've recently been researching an article about the history of Champagne, and came across so many delicious quotes in the process that I couldn't help but share. Without further ado, the ten that made the cut. May they inspire you to drink Champagne year-round!

#10

“What is your hosts’ purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were the their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent Champagne and women over to your place by taxi.”
- P.J. O’Rourke

#9

"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
-Graham Greene

#8

"Champagne is for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends."
-Tom Waits

#7

“Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them,and Champagne makes you do them.”
-Brillat-Savarin

#6

“Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it.”
- Madame de Pompadour, Lover of Lois XV of France

#5

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of Champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”
- Sir Winston Churchill

#4

“There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
- Bette Davis, Old Acquaintances

#3

“Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.”
- Napoleon

#2

“Come brothers, hurry, I am drinking stars!”
- Dom Pérignon, allegedly at the moment he discovered the first 'sparkling' Champagne.

And, drumroll please... One of the best quotes ever, about anything, from Madame Lily Bollinger, who knew a thing or two about Champagne...

#1

“I drink it 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 Lily Bollinger