Lawrence Osborne Quotes

Martinis are glamorous but also so simple because they only have a few ingredients, and you can really taste the vodka.

I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.

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

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

My favorite drink is sake.

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.

If there is a specialty cocktail I enjoy, it's the Moscow mule.

I'm a Remy Martin guy. I like Remy and Coke, and I like the white Remy V with pineapple. I'm an equal-opportunity Remy drinker.

I like beer.

I love a tequila shot. You should try it with brown sugar instead of the salt, and orange instead of the lemon. Amazing.

Pour two parts mix and you throw in one part tequila, some Don Julio, which is my favorite, shake it up a couple times. There's a perfect margarita.

Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

Wine gives strength to weary men.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.

In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse.

Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.

Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?

Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)

Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.