Citations:in vino veritas

English citations of in vino veritas

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• 1578, The Last Part of the Mirour for Magistrates […]‎^[1], folio 95^r:

  For I was witlesse, wanton, fond, and yongue, / VVhole bent to pleasure, brittle as the glasse: / I cannot lye, In vino veritas.

• 1713, A Vindication of the Ministers and Ruling Elders in the Church of Scotland Who Have Refused the Oath of Abjuration […], page 18:

  The Assurances Jacobites have of getting Home the Pretender, from what Airth GOD only knows; of which very credible Accounts have come from Hannover’s Friends Abroad; and sometimes from Jacobites in their Wine. In vino veritas.

• 1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography, page 128:

  “By-the-by, don’t get drunk; for in vino veritas. You know what that means.”

• 1888 July 22, “Gossip at the Capital: Midsummer Humor of Congressional Life”, in New-York Tribune, page 12:

  Just then a cog broke in his mental machinery and he could not remember the name of the other candidate. After several vain attempts he explained: ¶ [“]Oh, blank it, what’s the difference? Here’s to Cleveland and (hic) Scott, (Limited).” ¶ In vino veritas!

• 1946 October 4, Cyrus Durgin, “Shubert Theatre: ‘Happy Birthday’”, in The Boston Daily Globe, page 20:

  Designed for strictly urbane tastes, it is after a fashion an ode to the liberating properties of alcohol and a demonstration that in vino veritas, or approximately so.

• 1966 January 3, Henry Mitchell, “College Bowl Kids Appeal Like So Many Grave Owls”, in The Commercial Appeal, page 24:

  “Wuddya doon with that pig?” inquired a drunk. ¶ “That’s not a pig. That’s a duck,” said the lady. ¶ “I was talking to the duck,” said the drunk. ¶ In vino veritas, as they say at Harvard.

• 2006 August 6, John Schwartz, “Is It the Drunk or the Drink Doing the Talking?”, in The New York Times:

  Was this alcohol-fueled soliloquy an ugly insight into Mr. Gibson's character -- in other words, in vino veritas?

• 2011 December 17, “A Riche history: The café at the heart of revolutionary Cairo”, in The Economist, page 86:

  [Naguib Surur] drafted what he called the “Protocols of the Wise Men of Riche”, a poem satirising his companions. ¶ We said it all—in vino veritas / But people / Had other concerns: / Their daily bread / A kilo of meat.

• 2015 July 9, Daisy Buchanan, “Yes! This app buzzes when you pass a place where a woman made history”, in The Daily Telegraph:

  Admittedly we were also a bit drunk, but in vino veritas…