“What Aristotele said of Greek tragedy is also true of the Martini: “Having passed through many changes, it found its natural forms, and there it stopped”
Lowell Edmunds, Martini Straight Up
“We know the best feeling in the world is the one between the second and third martini”
Al Pacino
“The Martini is certainly more of a broad concept than a specific recipe”
Jason Wilson, Boozehound
“You can no more keep a martini in a 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”
Bernard DeVoto, The Hour
“Hearth full of youth, hearth full of truth, Six parts of gin to one part vermouth”
Tom Lehrer
“I’m not a drinker, my body won’t tolerate…eh…spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.”
Woody Allen
“This is marvellous”, she said, looking at the glass. “I’m so glad it’s not about twenty to one. I hate them when they are absolutely all gin.”
J. D. Salinger, Franny
“The martini is an honest drink, tasting exactly what it is and nothing else. There’s no sugar in a martini; no egg whites, no black or white rums, no shaved almonds, no fruit juice, no chocolate, and no spices. A martini is not served in a pineapple shell nor a piece of rolled up canoe bark, and there are no disgusting pieces of flotsam around the top. It is a clear, clean, cold, pure, honest drink – especially designed for people with established values and a liking for purity, even in their vices”
Donald G. Smith
“The graceful, long-stemmed and glittering glass; the cool and colorless transparency of the fluid sketching the curves of a slitte olive or the floating irregularities of a lemon peel convey the impression of a powerful stillness, apt to affect with elegant explosiveness a person’s body and mind”
Giorgio Lolli
“I have to get rid of these wet clothes and slip into a dry martini”
Mae West
“One martini is good. Two are too many, and three are not enough”
James Thurber
“You see, the important thing is the rhythm. You always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to a foxtrot. A Bronx to a two-step time. A dry Martini you always shake to waltz time”
Nick Charles in The Thin Man
“Happiness is finding two olives in your martini when you’re hungry”
Johnny Carson
“I’m ready to believe that a dry martini slightly affect the taste, but think about what he does for the soul”
Alec Waugh
“The Martini cocktail is a philosophy of life, a point of arrival”
Xavier de la Muela, Dry Martini Bar, Barcelona
“Dry Martini for all? There is no better tranquilizer”
Luis Buñuel – The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
“The Martini: America’s most lethal weapon”
Nikita Kruschchev
“I never go jogging, it makes me spill my Martini”
George Burns
“Martinis should always be stirred, not shaken, so that the molecules lie sensuously one on top of the other”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Martini: the elixir of quietude”
E.B. White
“Martini is the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet”
H.L. Mencken
“A man must defend his home, his wife, his children and his Martini”
Jackie Gleason
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