Shaken, not stirred Shaken, not stirred "Shaken, not stirred" is a catchphrase of Ian Fleming's fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond and describes his preference for the preparation of his martini cocktails. The phrase first appears in the novel "Diamonds Are Forever" (1956), though Bond himself does not actually say it until "Dr. No" (1958), where his exact words are "shaken and not stirred." In the film adaptations of Fleming's novels, the phrase is first uttered by the villain, Dr. Julius No, when he offers the drink in "Dr. No" (1962), and it is not uttered by Bond himself (played by Sean
The Death of Julius Caesar The Death of Julius Caesar The Death of Julius Caesar is an 1806 painting by Vincenzo Camuccini, originally commissioned in 1793 by Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, for whom he had already produced a copy of Raphael's "Deposition". He completed a cartoon for the work in 1793 which was favourably received by art critics active in Rome at the time. However, when he produced a first version of the painting in 1796, it was less well-received and so he destroyed it and started again from scratch, completing the surviving version in 1806. The Earl had died in 1803 and