Top 88 Martini Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

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

How?" I demanded. "How could you have screwed this one up?" "When I got in, they said the manager was on the phone and would be a few minutes. So, I sat down and ordered a drink." This time, I did lean my forehead against the steering wheel. "What did you order?" "A martini." "A martini." I lifted my head. "You ordered a martini before a job interview." "It's a bar, Sage. I figured they'd be cool with it.

I've been learning a lot about how to make a martini and all the variations that you can have with a few ingredients with Belvedere.

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

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

'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea.

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

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

Russians really needed a product that would be not as strong as vodka and not as feminine as cheap sparkling wine, so Martini was a good solution.

I don't think Bond does too much; he's just suave and sexy. He rolls out with his martini and fancy cars. Wow, it sounds like my life already.

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.

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

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

Like sexual harassment in the workplace and two-martini lunches, VJs are the stuff of legend whose time and train have passed, but I was fortunate enough to sneak into the express and ride it through the greatest age.

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

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

90 percent of the time I follow my usual healthy eating routine, but if it's a date night or girls' night out I'll go for that slice of pretzel bread or dirty martini and not torture myself over it.

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

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

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

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

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

After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini.

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

You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

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

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

A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.

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

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.

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!

I typically have a martini.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America.

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

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

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

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

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

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.