Quotes About Martini

Extra-dirty vodka Martinis - they're so easy to drink! I should really just drink olive juice; it'd be safer.

Dashiell Hammett

I take life with a slice of lemon a pinch of salt and a martinie shot

I'll have a martini...two at the most. Three, I'm under the table...four, I'm under the host.

Amo i Martini, ma due al massimo. Tre, e sono sotto al tavolo. Quattro, e sono sotto il cameriere.

It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one national flower in book publishing, it is the martini.

Auden is an Ausländer (foreigner), a Herr Professor (Smith, Swarthmore, Oxford, etc.) and sometimes Herr Dichter (Mr. Poet). This, by definition, means that the only Kirchstetten Inländers with whom he can associate socially are "the schoolmaster and his wife, the doctor and his wife, and the new priest—a young man whose name is Schickelgruber!* I've recently introduced Father Schickelgruber to his first martini. It was a huge success.

And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets with a perfunctory mystery element dropped in like the olive in a martini. (The Simple Art of Murder)

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.

I just smiled and wished hard for the waitress to come back from Cancun or Mazatlan or wherever she was so I could order my martini.

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

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

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

Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.'

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

Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me. 'It's barely noon,' said Nathan. 'I know,' said Adrian. 'I'm surprised I held out that long too.

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.

No olive?" I said. "Only a fucking beast would have an olive in his martini

You wanted me to insist. You wanted me to win the argument." "Wanted is too simple," Susan said. She had shifted her gaze from her martini to the ongoing afternoon outside her kitchen window. "I wanted and didn't want. I needed both my autonomy and your protection. By acting the way I did, I managed to have both.

No olive?" I said. "Only a fucking beast would have an olive in his martini," Cosgrove said.

With all respect to James Bond, a martini should be stirred, not shaken.

What do you write in those forms?" I asked. "Nothing. I just do this to look threatening," I watched him scribble, and I made out his tiny drawing of a martini glass, with olive. It wasn't often that I got to study him like this, concentrating, in full light. He gently bit his soft bottom lip. .... "You're sexy when you threaten people.

Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini?

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