martini quotes

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

-Anonymous
c.1925  The origin of this line is disputed; it has been attributed to Billy Wilder, Charles Butterworth,  Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley's press agent. It was used by Mae West in Every Day's a Holiday (1937 film) and by Benchley in The Major and the Minor (1942 film).

You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

-DeVoto, Bernard
The Hour.

2 Quotes found. Displaying quotes 1 through 2

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2005 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.