Cocktail Parties Quotes

• Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

  Billy Carter

  Party, Drinking, Food

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• Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

  Fred Allen

  Party, Men, People

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• A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

  Robert Breault

  Party, Holiday, Cocktails

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• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  Harold MacMillan

  Fear, Party, Life And Death

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• Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

  Robert Stack

  Party, Guests, Cocktails

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• But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

  Joan Collins

  Girl, Giving Up, Party

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• The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Hate, Party, Doors

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Moonlight Becomes You”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

  Dorothy Malone

  Morning, Party, Cocktails

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

  T. S. Eliot

  Relationship, Memories, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Philosophy, Loneliness

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• I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.

  Dorothy Parker

  Party, Would Be, Cocktails

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• The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Oil, Cocktails

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Party, Artist, Cocktails

  "A generation of artists were wiped out by Aids and we barely talk about it" by Suzanne Moore, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2016.

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• Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

  Mick Jagger

  Party, Cocktails, Streets

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• Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Speak No Evil, Cocktails

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• The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.

  Martha Stewart

  Party, America, World

  Martha Stewart, Elizabeth Hawes (1982). “Entertaining”, Clarkson Potter

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• What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, People, Moments

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Humorous

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• It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

  T. S. Eliot

  Destiny, Risk, Finding Yourself

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• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Loneliness, Ambition

  Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”

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• There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  Renata Adler

  Philosophy, Littles, Modern

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• Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

  Julia Child

  Party, Food, Cocktails

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• The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have access to these people, we don't have access. We don't go to dinners we don't have cocktail parties. We don't you know, you've seen what happens when one of us ends up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it doesn't end well.

  Jon Stewart

  Party, Frustration, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

  Ina Garten

  Sweet, Fun, Party

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies.

  Paz Vega

  Beautiful, Party, Dresses

  "Viva La Vega". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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