Martini Quotes

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? (Robert Benchley)

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

James Thurber

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

Paul Desmond

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

Alec Waugh

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

Nancy Kerrigan

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon.

Norman Mailer

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

P. G. Wodehouse

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!

George Clooney

Almost overnight, Dorothy Parker was transformed from a woman of letters into a gin-soaked quote machine, with a martini in one hand and a dagger in the other.

Dorothy Parker

I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four I'm under my host. (Dorothy Parker)

Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me. 'It's barely noon,' said Nathan. 'I know,' said Adrian. 'I'm surprised I held out that long too.

Richelle Mead

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Douglas Coupland

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

William Faulkner

A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.'... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?

Ian Fleming

And I would like a medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred, please. I would prefer Russian or Polish vodka.

Ian Fleming

We were given drinks, and drank them, and talked while we drank them. But talked, here, is a euphemism: we had that conversation about how you make a Martini. The people in Hell, Dr. Rosenbaum had told me once, say nothing but What? Americans in Hell tell each other how to make Martinis.

Randall Jarrell

I played it slightly tongue-in-cheek because I never quite believed that James Bond was a spy because everybody knew him, they all knew what he drank. He'd walk into a bar and it would always be, "Ah, Commander Bond, martini, shaken not stirred."

Roger Moore

You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink Cadillac, my highway, my martini, the stage for my heart to rock and roll on, the screen where my movies light up.

Francesca Lia Block

Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.

Bill O'Reilly

He saw Hawks, grunted, hefted the bottle and said, "I hate the stuff. It tastes lousy, it makes me gag, it stinks, and it burns my mouth. But they keep putting it in your hands, and they keep saying ‘Drink up!' to each other, and ‘What's the matter, Charlie, falling a little behind, there? Freshen up that little drinkee for you?” Until you feel like a queer of some kind, and a bore for the times you say you don't want another one, positively. And they fill their folklore with it, until you wouldn't dream you were having a good time unless you'd swilled enough of the stuff to poison yourself all the next day. And they talk gentleman talk about it-ages and flavors and brands and blends, as if it wasn't all ethanol in one concentration or another. Have you ever heard two Martini drinkers in a bar, Hawks? Have you ever heard two shamans swapping magic?”. (Algis Budrys)

Another good touch. What do we charge for a regular martini?” "Ninty-five cents-ninety-eight cents with tax. What's it do to the tips?” Builds them. There aren't as many dimes and nickels around, so they usually leave two-bits. The two cents' change is a sting to conscience.”.

Ross Thomas

A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

Daniel Seligman

We [Helen and Clement Greenberg] went through the hill towns of Italy together, and we'd picnic in Perugia and argue about the Quattrocento painters and why this Simone Martini was better than that Simone Martini, or why this Sienese guy was better than that guy from Orvieto. I learned how to look at modern pictures because of Old Masters, and vice versa.

Helen Frankenthaler

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Tom Ford

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