One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ...And one drinks it.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about

I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.