Gin Quotes

• The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

  Winston Churchill

  Doctors, Mind, Empires

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• I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

  Phyllis Diller

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Meditation

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• I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Strong

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• My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.

  W. C. Fields

  Ambition, Orange Trees, Glasses

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• For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

  Noel Coward

  Fuel, Youth, Sober

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• A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

  John Cheever

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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• The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.

  Garrison Keillor

  Lying, Drinking, News

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• A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

  Noel Coward

  Glasses, Perfect, Martini

  "The Martini: the epitome of cocktail-hour refinement" by Henry Jeffreys, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2015.

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• Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

  John D. MacDonald

  Music, Night, Self

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• Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Hammocks, Way

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

  T. S. Eliot

  Drinking, Drug, Dear

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• There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

  Billy Joel

  Men, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Piano Man, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Rules To Live By, Three

  "Ray Bradbury on Sci-Fi, God and Robots: The Late Author's Biggest Ideas" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

  Tupac Shakur

  Death, Couple, Writing

  Song: Life Goes On

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• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

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

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• Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

  Julia Child

  Wine, White, Beef

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• He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Skins, Ankles

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On this lovely, lovely Hanukkah, drink your gin and tonica.

  Adam Sandler

  Religious, Lovely, Religion

  Song: The Hanukkah Song

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• I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"

  Dallas Campbell

  Life Is Good, Thinking, Hands

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

  Denis Thatcher

  Giving, Sake, Gin And Tonic

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

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• Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up. “I thought you must be dead …” he said simply. “So did I for a while,” said Ford, “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.

  Douglas Adams

  Couple, Jumping, Gin And Tonic

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.295, Pan Macmillan

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• Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Sake, Advertising

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• The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Body, Flight

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.35, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.

  Isaac Stern

  New York, Taken, Airplane

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