Cocktails Quotes - Page 3

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, New Year, Drinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• A cocktail will never be better than its cheapest ingredient.

  David A. Embury

  Ingredients

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• One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

  James Thurber

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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• If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

  Luis Bunuel

  Missing You, Doubt, Luck

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.45, Random House

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Drinking, Wine

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

  Dave Barry

  Inspiring, Sunshine, Two

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  Jack Lemmon

  Funny, Music, Morning

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• Have you ever noticed it for some reason you want to feel completely out of step with the rest of the world, the only thing to do is sit around a cocktail lounge for the afternoon?

  Lizabeth Scott

  Steps, Afternoon, World

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• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Work

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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• I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

  Oscar Levant

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

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

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• Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Long, Effects

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.79, D. H. Lawrence

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• It's never too early for a cocktail.

  Noel Coward

  Noel Coward (1952). “Play Parade”

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• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Food, Drinking, Beer

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

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• To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

  Lorna Luft

  Drinking, Marijuana, High Heels

  Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  America, United States, Cuba

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• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  Harold MacMillan

  Fear, Party, Life And Death

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• I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

  Ray Manzarek

  Player, Thinking, Piano

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• I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.

  Dorothy Parker

  Party, Would Be, Cocktail Parties

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• Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Islamic, Radical, Palestinian

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• As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

  Bobby Sherman

  Wine, Meals, Champagne

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• Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

  Bill Blass

  Drawing, Style, Glamour

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• Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

  Robert Stack

  Party, Guests, Cocktail Parties

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• But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

  Joan Collins

  Girl, Giving Up, Party

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• Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Sarcastic, Jobs

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• Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Speak No Evil, Cocktail Parties

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