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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 16747 |
| QUOTATION: | What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] (1885–1962), Danish author. Seven Gothic Tales, “The Dreamers,” (1934). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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