Cocktails Quotes

• Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

  Elsa Maxwell

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trust, Clouds, Lasts

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• If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

  Robert Fulghum

  New Year, Party, Color

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

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "Fictional character: Mr. Albert Osborne". "The Major and the Minor", www.imdb.com. September 16, 1942.

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• The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.

  Dean Martin

  Beer, Two, Glasses

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• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Drinking, Taken

  In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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• If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

  Dean Martin

  Retirement, Drinking, Book

  "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

  Shane Warne

  Play, People, Looks

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• Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Writing, Acting

  Interview with Dennis Widmyer, chuckpalahniuk.net. September 30, 2007.

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• Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

  Billy Carter

  Party, Drinking, Food

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• The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Hate, Party, Doors

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Moonlight Becomes You”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

  Edward Abbey

  Gun, Hands, Molotov Cocktail

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

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• It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Mean, Hands

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• You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

  Bruce Davison

  People, Sick, Millions

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• Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

  Dean Cain

  Nice, Two, Hot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

  Dorothy Malone

  Morning, Party, Cocktail Parties

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Drinking, Beer

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

  Alistair Cooke

  Accepted, Music Is

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.

  Todd English

  Couple, Home, Wine

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• Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

  Neville Cardus

  Water, Age, Austerity

  Sir Neville Cardus (1966). “The Delights of Music: A Critic's Choice”, London : Gollancz

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• Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.

  Jean Sibelius

  Water, Hue, Cold

  "Sibelius: The Symphonies" by Cecil Gray, London: Oxford University Press, (p. 56), 1935.

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• My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Mom, Dad, Molotov Cocktail

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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