“Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin—such blasphemy I never heard…this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted…” — Edward John Trelawny

“A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.” — Roy Blount, Jr.

“Beloved, we join hands here to pray for gin. An aridity defiles us. Our innards thirst for the juice of juniper…” —Wallace Thurman

“I exercise strong self-control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.” — C. Fields

“The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.” — Bernard DeVoto

“Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple – or dead.” — Ian Fleming

“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.” — S. Forester

“A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose’s lime juice and nothing else.” — Raymond Chandler