Martini Quotes

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

  James Thurber

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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• I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Halloween, Drinking, Bad Ass

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

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• Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry.

  Johnny Carson

  Two, Olives, Hungry

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

  Noel Coward

  Glasses, Perfect, Made

  "The Martini: the epitome of cocktail-hour refinement" by Henry Jeffreys, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2015.

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• A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

  Sean Connery

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• I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

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

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• Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

  George Burns

  Drinking, Good Woman, Cuban Cigars

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• 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

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

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

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• 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

  Bigger, Feels, Wiser

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

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Two, Three, Enough

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

  George Burns

  Jogging, Spills

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• The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Perfect, Invention

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• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.

  Mae West

  Food, Beer, Clothes

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• This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

  Herman Wouk

  Clouds, Taste, Cold

  "The Winds of War". ABC miniseries, 1983.

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

  Norman Mailer

  Light, Horizon, Lasts

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

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "Fictional character: Mr. Albert Osborne". "The Major and the Minor", www.imdb.com. September 16, 1942.

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• A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, How do you like it up here? The priest says, If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini? Yes. Rosary, get the bishop a martini!

  Henny Youngman

  Alaska, Years, Rosary

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

  Chris Gayle

  Three, Enough, Breasts

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• 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

  Ice, Add, Three

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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

  Bob Shacochis

  Art, Glasses, Elbows

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• A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.

  Jackie Gleason

  Children, Home, Men

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

  Shanola Hampton

  Superhero, Bartending, World

  "Talking About Alcohol with Shanola Hampton". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. January 25, 2013.

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

  Daniel Seligman

  Inspirational, Spirit, Raises

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

  Eric Stoltz

  Plato, Wine, Dry

  "Fictional character: Chet". "Kicking and Screaming", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Kissing, Refrigerators

  1951 The Hour.

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