Crime fiction Quote by Brian Azzarello

“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“I order three martinis and down them in quick succession, shuddering at the strength of the alcohol. When they don’t immediately work, I order…

— Helen Harper

“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“Gin is a confusing drink. It’s the only liquid that’s both wet and dry.”

— Jarod Kintz

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

— Elsa Maxwell

“Booze has a different effect when you're, like, ten. Its doesn't round out the edges so much as wash you right out of the…

— Jerry Stahl

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

— Noel Coward

“Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.”

— Omar Khayyám

“But I’m not going to lie: it was bloody tough not drinking at all for nine months. The only thing that got me through…

— Ruth Ware

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

— Mae West

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

— Terry Pratchett

“Come and have a cocktail. It's nearly lunch time.”

— Agatha Christie