Dry Martini Quotes & Sayings

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

Nona needs a very dry martini. — Holly Hood

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

Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say:
Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'. — Chip Kidd

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly. — John Dos Passos

Why couldn't we put on a defense? I had seventeen witnesses standing outside the door. They just dropped the defense and went on to the penalty phase. Like everything was cut and dry before it went off to martini land. — Charles Manson

There are lots of animals in the house.
There's an elephant in the hall,
a seal in the bathtub,
a crane in the laundry,
a tiger on the stairs,
and a polar bear by the fridge.
Does this have anything to do with you? — John Burningham

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

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

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman. — George Burns

A proper drink at the right time - one mixed with care and skill and served in a true spirit of hospitality - is better than any other made thing at giving us the illusion, at least, that we're getting what we want from life. A cat can gaze upon a king, as the proverb goes, and after a Dry Martini or a Sazerac Cocktail or two, we're all cats. — David Wondrich

Very well, Priscilla. Maggie, I hope you enjoy this exercise and take it to heart," he said with a hard voice.
I smiled a genuine smile. "I plan to. Thank you."
He bristled at my kindness and walked over to the coffee bar.
"Kill 'em with kindness, sister!" Lynne said triumphantly. — Shelly Crane

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. — P.G. Wodehouse

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes. — Leo Tolstoy

Damn it all, you have been given a life on this beautiful planet! Get off your ass and do something! — Nick Offerman

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. — Alice Stone Blackwell

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

The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing. — Sam Vaknin

I took a punch at one of the rosebushes. It got its revenge by stabbing me in the hand. — Alex Flinn

The van started as John had promised, and it sounded good, but was about as useless as tits on a turtle if we couldn't get out of the garage. — Mark Tufo

Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up! — Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

Bond insisted ordering Leiter's Haig-and-Haig "on the rocks" and then he looked carefully at the barman. "A Dry Martini", he said. "One. In a deep champagne goblet." "Oui, monsieur." Just a moment. Three measures of Gordons, 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 lemonpeel. Got it?" "Certainly, monsieur." The barman seemed pleased with the idea. — Ian Fleming

The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole. — Arthur Conan Doyle

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'. — Nora Ephron

Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society. — Hodding Carter III

I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch. — Preet Bharara

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

Every day, everywhere we are surrounded by positive things, but will you choose to see them? — Nabil N. Jamal

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

Without sorrow, would we know what happiness is? — Robert H Ma