Gin is a cult spirit – no wonder it has figured in so many memorable songs, films and books. Here are some of our favourite quotes.
"It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday. The regular crowd shuffles in. There’s an old man sitting next to me. Makin’ love to his tonic and gin."
Billy Joel, Piano Man
"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"
Billy Wilder, The Major and the Minor
"A reviving and refreshing gin based highball that cools the blood and inspires renewed interest in food, companions and life."
Ernest Hemingway on his Death in the Gulf Stream cocktail
"I met a gin-soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis. She tried to take me upstairs for a ride…"
The Rolling Stones, Honky Tonk Woman
"Gin & Tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire."
Winston Churchill
"One-half vodka, one-half gin, no vermouth."
Audrey Hepburn, playing Holly Golightly, orders a White Angel in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca
