Everyone feels like they would love to be a really cool bartender in a really cool bar, but you're still surrounded by people who want to destroy themselves with alcohol. When you look at it that way, it's not that much fun.
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.
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.
I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.
The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
I'd like to go out for a cocktail... or seven.
I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.
Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.
When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.
It's never too early for a cocktail.
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.
I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.
One of the shows I would very much love to be a part of is 'Mad Men' - walking around that office.
Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.
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.
In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.
There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
I'm quite good at leaning against a bar.
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.
