Martini Quotes

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“[A martini.] Shaken, not stirred.”

“One [martini] is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.”

“[The dry martini is] the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet.”

“You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.
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“I had never tasted anything so cool and clean [as martinis]. They made me feel civilized.”

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four I'm under my host.”

“Martinis should never be shaken. They should always be stirred so that the molecules lie sensuously on top of each other.”

“The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a manhattan you shake to foxtrot time, a bronx to two-step time, but a dry martini you always shake to waltz time.”