Gin And Tonic Quotes

• A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Book, Anchors, Funny Drinking

  "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.

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• I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

  Denis Thatcher

  Giving, Sake, Reception

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

  Winston Churchill

  Doctors, Mind, Empires

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• I really need a gin and tonic.

  Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

  Needs, Gin

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• Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up. “I thought you must be dead …” he said simply. “So did I for a while,” said Ford, “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.

  Douglas Adams

  Couple, Jumping, Arthur

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.295, Pan Macmillan

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• I had an Aston Martin phone worth ?15,000 given to me as a present. I dropped it in a gin and tonic about 15 seconds after opening it.

  Simon Jordan

  Phones, Aston Martin, Given

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• I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Strong

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• The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Hammocks, Way

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.

  Robert Fisk

  Coffee, Italian, Iran

  Robert Fisk (2001). “Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"

  Dallas Campbell

  Life Is Good, Thinking, Hands

  Source: collider.com

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• and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

  Douglas Adams

  Couple, Week, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational

  "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

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• I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

  J. G. Ballard

  Morning, Three, Afternoon

  "Writers' rooms: JG Ballard" by JG Ballard, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2007.

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• In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Australia, Sailing

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.145, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.

  Lorrie Moore

  Lost Love, Light, People

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• This was a dream. A very bad, bad dream, brought on by liver poisoning from too many gin and tonics. Here it was, a deal with the devil. At what price my soul? He watched me expectantly and threateningly all at the same time. If I said no, I knew what would happen. Save the glass, waitress, I’m drinking from the bottle! Happy hour, with my neck on tap. If I said yes, I’d be agreeing to a partnership with pure evil.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dream, Drinking, Glasses

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• Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Gin, Intervention

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.

  Tash

  Rap, Hip Hop, Mama

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