Best Martini Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You could drink hard liquor in the middle of a school day without people assuming you were an alcoholic underachiever. Strange how in America in the 1950s, at the height of its industrial and imperial power, men drank double-martinis for lunch. Now, in its decline, they drank fizzy water. Somewhere something had gone terribly wrong.”

Martini Thank You For Smoking

Author:christopher buckely

“Mirabelle? Mirabelle Bevan? Well, I’ll be blowed!” Mirabelle started, almost spilling her drink. It took her a moment to realize who the handsome man was, now his hair was greying at the edges and he was out of uniform. Puffing laconically on a cigarette, martini in hand, he wore a lounge suit and an understated silk tie with a discreet regimental insignia woven into the fabric. “Eddie,” she smiled. “What are you doing here?”

Handsome Reunion Gin Martini Meeting Suit Tie Mirabelle Lounge

Author:Sara Sheridan

“Me acerqué más aún y le dije susurrando —Hoy brindé por una noche sin conciencia ni culpas, el universo no me pudo enviar una mejor señal que un diseñador, esto debe significar algo. Ian levantó su ceja. Sostenía mi mirada a cinco centímetros de distancia de mi rostro, le preguntó a Johannes que nos observaba anonadado con las cejas arqueadas. —Amigo ¿Por qué brindamos hoy cuando nos servimos nuestro primer trago? —Por una noche creativa —respondió Johannes entre risas. —Y el universo me envió a una diseñadora… definitivamente esto debe significar algo.”

Romance Español Universo Martini Chicklit Noche Amora Creativa

Book:Café y Martinis

Source: Café y Martinis

“The martini is the supreme American gift to world culture.”

Martini Literary Critic

Author:Bernard De Voto

“A joke I used to know said that if you were planning a trip into the deepest wilderness you should pack a bottle of gin and a bottle of vermouth, and never open them unless and until you became hopelessly lost. Then, wherever you were, when you took your two bottles out of your kit bag, someone would come over the horizon and tell you how to make a better martini.”

Humor Martini

Book:Selected Columns from Canadian Living

Source: Selected Columns from Canadian Living

“When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Enough Eye Order Stupid Husband Married My Husband Being Married Waiter Martini

Author:Megan Fox

“I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.”

Giving Too Much Giving Up Enjoyed Martini

Author:Brett Somers

“A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.”

Mediums Dry Lemons Vodka Martini

Author:Ian Fleming

“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.”

Ifs Want Writing Song Fall Girl Trouble Easier Red Dresses Bars Chairs Tonight Say Anything Fifth Martini Falling Off

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?”

Three Drinking Patriotic Lunch Efficiency Epitome Martini

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“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.”

May Kids School Brain Successful Drink Smoke Occasions Pot Surgeons Martini Stoners Brain Surgeons

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.”

Thinking Different Kids Three Four Dad Beats Wine Drinking Dinner Accepted Parts Of Life Pernicious Martini

Author:Stephen King

“I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.”

World Want Shakes Superhero Save The World Martini Bartending

Author:Shanola Hampton

“New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.”

Wanted Past New York Drink Bedtime Martini

Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.”

Should Children Helping Used Party Adults Small Child Martini Midget

Author:Barbara Walters

“How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?”

Food Cooking Dry Culinary Wet Slipping Martini

Author:Noel Coward

“suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.”

Suffering Ingredients Entertaining Hospitality Martini

Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe

Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe

“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”

Martini

Author:Sean Connery

“Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.”

“The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency.”

Three Alcohol Lunch Efficiency Epitome Martini

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.”

People Life Funny Remember Names Mines Terrible Humorous Actresses Manners Introducing Olives Martini

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“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.”

Littles Country Kids Wanted Film Cities New York Television Keys Glasses Artificial Little Kid Martini Key To Happiness Film And Television Artificial Life Penthouses

Author:Tom Ford

“If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.”

Ifs Wells Made Spirit Water Hours Vision Wise Reader Blessing Breaths Generous Self Made Martini Indomitable Water Of Life

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.”

Way Looks Two Three Drink Brave Sober Bathroom Scotch Cushions Martini Hoover

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“I'm not out there screaming that women are drinking bourbon, but I think it's a great beverage as an option. I've got nothing against drinking a Cosmo or Martini. It's not like one is judging the other. It's just delicious and slow and steady, and there's something about sipping a bourbon that to me is very relaxing.”

Thinking Judging Drinking Steady Delicious Martini Beverages Bourbon Sipping Slow And Steady

Author:Mila Kunis

“Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.'”

Humor Funny Dirty Sandwiches Olives Martini Bologna

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.”

Horse Martini

Author:Steve McQueen

“I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.”

People Kind Average Monsters Selling Flavor Music Business Vintage Martini Anomalies

Author:Ben Folds

“I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.”

Knows Vodka Martini

Author:Daniel Craig

“Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in 2017.'”

Said President Likes Beach President Obama Hawaii Cocktails Martini

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Society is so tough and expectations are so unrealistic. Could I take better care of myself? Absolutely. I joke all the time that I'm old and I'm getting older and I feel it, so I guess I would rather talk about it with a smile and say, 'Oh God, I'm old!' than spend all my time at the dermatologist. I approach aging with ice cream and a martini.”

Feels Care Approach Jokes Expectations Tough Aging Ice My Time Cream Ice Cream Getting Old Getting Older Martini

Author:Jenna Lyons

“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.”

Should Art Pleasure Raises Glasses Mortals Piety Elbows Salute Martini

Author:Bob Shacochis

“I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.”

Spills Jogging Martini

Author:George Burns

“Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise”

Watches Drink Criminals Suits Ties Sunrise Martini Suits And Ties

Author:Bob Dylan

“My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.”

Would Be Drink Comfort Red Wine Chosen Dry Southern Martini Lemonade Red Wine Limes

Author:Nikki Sanderson

“Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising.”

Bigs Jobs Yeah Drinking Advertising Martini

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.”

Ifs Fine Red Wine Dry Plato Martini Red Wine

Author:Eric Stoltz

“One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.”

Two Enough Three Martini

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.”

People Thinking Shows Age Guy Ought Drink Smoke Retiring Show Business Retired Cigar Martini

Author:George Burns

“Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.”

Needs Writing Kind Book Adventure Balance Internals Chairs Hawaii Floats Sofas Martini Shakers Rafting

Author:Tom Robbins

“A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.”

Should Made Perfect Glasses Filling Gin Funny Drinking Funny Alcohol Martini

Author:Noel Coward

“They say that a martini is like a woman's breast. One ain't enough and three is too many.”

Enough Three Breasts Martini

Author:Chris Gayle

“I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment.”

Film Car Scene Bars Gloves Dean Martini Helm Bond Movie James Bond Movie

Author:Adam Reed

“I typically have a martini.”

Martini

Author:Rona Ambrose

“I have either a cucumber martini, gin martini, or a vodka martini. That's it. Simple.”

Simple Gin Vodka Martini Cucumbers

Author:Robert De Niro

“When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.”

People Firsts Wanted Actors Felt Audience Walking Behavior Drinking Actresses Evening Smoking Cigarette Gowns Martini Smoking Cigarettes Actors And Actresses Evening Gowns

Author:Bette Midler

“A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.”

Drinking Dirty Privacy Martini

Author:Lake Bell

“The definition of happiness being very emotion-oriented - the problem is that there's too many quick and dirty ways to chase that in ways that end up being unhelpful to people. If you just have another martini or even more severe substances. But commercial culture and our media is constantly encouraging us to think that if we feel good we live well. We're only too happy to sell you goods and services from the dancing oivoids and the pill you can take, or the trips or the cars or the clothes or the women that you can get with - whatever that is that will give you the quick route to that.”

People Thinking Giving Problem Culture Car Dancing Feel Good Dirty Live Well Martini

Author:Steven C. Hayes

“Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?”

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

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