”I had never tasted anything so cool and clean.”

“A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.”
Jackie Gleason

“Martinis are the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet.”
L. Mencken

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

I dropped what I was carrying. I went straight to the alcohol section and got myself a bottle of vodka, a bottle of vermouth and went back and made myself a Martini… or two.

You can’t handle Vermouth.

A fortified wine with higher alcohol content and infused spices and herbs, vermouth is a calorie saver if you have it by itself—as it’s commonly served in Europe.

– Georgie Fear

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

– Steve Allen

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.