Quotes About Cocktails

#1. It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

Robert Fulghum

#3. I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.

Sam Riley

#4. My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.

Alison Moyet

#5. Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.

Jonathan Kieran

#6. The old Janey only drank cheap wine and light beer. The new Janey is classy, prefers cocktails, and even drinks alone.

J.C. Patrick

#7. I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Young, new moms need coffee to survive. Older moms with teenagers need cocktails.

Sandra Lake

#9. The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

Frank Muir

#10. Everyone else is just cocktails.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?'
'Oh, rather!'
'What do you do about it?'
'I generally take a couple of cocktails.

P.G. Wodehouse

#12. And after, you know, having the old chicken or whatever it is they bring around and a couple of cocktails, you turn to the person sitting next to you and say, you know, you going home, then?

Nick Lowe

#13. I love cocktails. My specialty drink is a gimlet with a little egg white in it so it gets frothy. I really like rose water - sometimes I'll add it to champagne.

Christina Hendricks

#14. I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay.

Viola Davis

#15. I'm not sure anyone goes through a cancer scare unchanged. I know it changed me in so many ways. But I was fortunate to have had a rare cancer that's slow-growing and one that allowed me to skip the chemical cocktails that would have put me into early menopause.

Susan McBride

#16. I used to feel sorry for myself, then I discovered cocktails. If life has taught me anything, it's that there's nothing a stiff drink can't fix.

K.M. Morgan

#17. Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies.

Paz Vega

#18. I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. 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

#19. Funny how easily you could look this shit up online. Explosives, bombs, Molotov cocktails, IEDs . . . anything you wanted. Learning how to blow someone up was easier than buying a frigging beer.

Lauren Oliver

#20. Self-denial is not denying to ourselves luxuries such as chocolates, cakes, cigarettes and cocktails (although it might include this); it is actually denying or disowning ourselves, renouncing our supposed right to go our own way.

John R.W. Stott

#21. How many'd we do? is the question frequently asked at the end of the shift, when the cooks collapse onto flour sacks and milk crates and piles of dirty linen, smoking their cigarettes, drinking their shift cocktails,

Anthony Bourdain

#22. I admire your enthusiasm...but I cannot, in good conscience, assist you with any civic unrest.'
'Civic unrest? This is war, Major," said Alice, chuckling at him. 'Man the barricades and break out the Molotov cocktails!

Helen Simonson

#23. When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

Theodor Adorno

#24. Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#25. 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

#26. I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

Jude Law

#27. A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.

P. J. O'Rourke

#28. The waiter repeated, The cocktails are from Mr Seadon. He asked me to tell you that he thought you'd enjoy them. They are called Secrets.

Milly Silver

#29. When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#30. What do you talk about to a murderer, and someone you loved, over a perfect dinner and cocktails? I wanted to know so many things, but I couldn't ask any of the real-questions pounding in my head. Instead, we talked of the coming vacation days, a "plan" for the
here and now in the islands.

James Patterson

#31. So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

Anita Loos

#32. The polite conversation that carried over from cocktails into dinner was so stifling that it carried a certain ruthlessness,

Bret Easton Ellis

#33. Well ... yeah. It just goes to show. (Peabody)
Show what (Dallas)
You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead. (Peabody)

J.D. Robb

#34. After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.

Brian Azzarello

#35. I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

Florentijn Hofman

#36. Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.

Danny Meyer

#37. Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails.

Susan Juby

#38. I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.

Vera Wang

#39. No party is complete without cocktails! My friends all have different tastes when it comes to their drink of choice, so I like to maintain a well-stocked bar with different kinds of alcohol to keep everyone happy.

Khloe Kardashian

#40. After one and a half cocktails, finding the appropriate response is a bit of a challenge. I finally say, 'Thank you for inviting me,' and leave the less desirable 'Want to play strip poker?' in the unscrupulous part of my brain where it belongs.

Elle Lothlorien

#41. We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.

Anne Taylor Fleming

#42. I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

Haruki Murakami

#43. Women are still angry about feeling duped and undervalued, but instead of ignoring their kids and downing cocktails all day, as in Friedan's time, now we have the angry overdrive child-rearing style: motherhood as a competitive sport.

Laura Kipnis

#44. Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.

Irma S. Rombauer

#45. Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

Lesley M.M. Blume

#46. In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.

Madonna Ciccone

#47. Don't skimp on the ice. Bags from the grocery store melt so fast and water down your drinks. I prefer beautiful, big squares for my cocktails.

Jose Andres

#48. The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Peter Drucker

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

Lorna Luft

#50. I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Ayelet Waldman

#51. I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.

Michelle Tea

#52. 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

#53. With that, the conversation finally exhausted itself, leaving us to nuzzle our cocktails with the affection one reserved for puppies.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#54. I feel I should point out that I do not mix cocktails or provide helpful advice to those who find themselves in a bit of a pickle; and neither do I untangle emotional difficulties. I just buttle. (The Butler in The Dark Side of the Road)

Simon R. Green

#55. Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

G.K. Chesterton

#56. I was often allowed to watch them drink their cocktails.

James Baldwin

#57. Everything costs so much - clothes and one's face - and just silly things like cinemas and cocktails - and even gramophone records!' Roddy

Agatha Christie

#58. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#59. Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall.

Richard Corliss

#60. New Orleans, said he usually dresses in costume for the Mardi Gras holiday, but the weather deterred him this year. Baker said he chose to celebrate a little differently - sipping cocktails under the cover of a friend's French Quarter patio balcony while watching other costumed revelers

Anonymous

#61. Hemlock in the cocktails, wasn't it? Something of that kind.

Agatha Christie

#62. I don't make cocktails with whisky. I'll always drink it with a little bit of water. I love Negronis early on, but for me drinking whisky is something I do at the end of an evening. It's a midnight-to-3-a.m. drink for me.

Patrick Grant

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

Bruce Davison

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

Jean Sibelius

#65. Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.

Drew Barrymore

#66. One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.

Stephen King

#67. Perfume is like cocktails without the hangover, like chocolate without the calories, like an affair without tears, like a vacation from which you never have to come back.

Marian Bendeth

#68. Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

Maurice Bowra

#69. Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

Ricky Jay

#70. You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead.

J.D. Robb

#71. He grinned. "You realise I'm reporting for duty on the second of January?"
"Good. Then the last memory you'll have of me is wearing a party frock and knocking back cocktails while I kick old 1914 right in the teeth. Let's send it off in style.
(Delilah and Johnny)

Deanna Raybourn

#72. Then again, in some of our meetings, the Upyri bring cocktails, shaking both cocks and tails. Bitches. You can't live with them, they can't live without you. It's a lose-lose situation.

Yannis Karatsioris

#73. Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service.

Edward Docx

#74. For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

Harold H. Greene

#75. Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.

Don King

#76. Tycoons were sipping cocktails over ice cubes shipped from Antarctica.

Anonymous

#77. One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Will Rogers

#78. Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

Barbara Walters

#79. Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in 2017.'

Jimmy Fallon

#80. Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations ...

Phyllis McGinley

#81. A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

Lin Yutang

#82. I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

Liz Garbus

#83. I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

Phyllis Diller

#84. Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

Julia Child

#85. I'd like to go out for a cocktail ... or seven.

Chelsea Handler

#86. I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind ...

Terry Pratchett

#87. Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

P. J. O'Rourke

#88. Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

Jilly Cooper

#89. "You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress."

Robin Roberts

#90. It's never too early for a cocktail.

Noel Coward

#91. You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!

Homer

#92. 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

#93. Now, if you will excuse me, a dead woman is trying to convince me to drink something that comes in layers.

Seanan McGuire

#94. I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist ... I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

Sylvia Rivera

#95. Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

Edgar Guest

#96. 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.

P.G. Wodehouse

#97. I have a swizzle stick shaped like a little monkey," announced Rose. "Let's help the dead man with his problem.

Seanan McGuire

#98. If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they're contagious and you can catch it from them.

Rand Paul

#99. Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me.

Aya Nakahara

#100. Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

Ted Allen