Ogden Nash Quotes

A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.

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.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

I'm quite good at leaning against a bar.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

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

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

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.

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

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.

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

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

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

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

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

A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

Shaken and not stirred.

I like big drinks that aren't afraid of the alcohol in them. Not big in size, but in flavor, and the way I can allow myself to enjoy them is by making them in very small quantities. I make tiny glasses of very big drinks.

I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

I wanna get a little drunk, but I also want some pancakes.