42 Quotes About Cocktails

When you can’t handle the heady concoction of wine and women, it’s time to pack up your bags and quit.

You could drink hard liquor in the middle of a school day without people assuming you were an alcoholic underachiever. Strange how in America in the 1950s, at the height of its industrial and imperial power, men drank double-martinis for lunch. Now, in its decline, they drank fizzy water. Somewhere something had gone terribly wrong.

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.

An ice-cold Martini is like the first sip of water for a desert strandee — nectar from the Gods; a warm one is a human rights violation and tastes more like Bear Grylls' regular drink of choice

Some classic cocktails have little to no recorded history to speak of, just a list of ingredients. By contrast, others have so much history and folklore that getting to the truth of things can be a bit like wading through treacle - slow and messy.

He was always inclined to read a fictitious sombreness into things when the shadows began to creep over the world and it was still too early for a cocktail.

...But a cocktail is not meant to be a mélange. It is not a potpourri or an Easter parade. At its best, a cocktail should be crisp, elegant, sincere—and limited to two ingredients.”“Just two?”“Yes. But they must be two ingredients that complement each other; that laugh at each other’s jokes and make allowances for each other’s faults; and that never shout over each other in conversation. Like gin and tonic,” he said, pointing to his drink.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

Everyone else is just cocktails.