Sociability Quotes

• We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heart, People, Intellect

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• Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Food, Tea

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Live Life, Introvert

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• Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Eye, Men, Humanity

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• Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

  John Gay

  Men, Animal, Together

  John Gay (1791). “The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera”, p.73

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• Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

  Clay Shirky

  Causes, Social, Cause And Effect

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

  Wil Wheaton

  Successful, Awkward, Matter

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• A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Successful, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Witty, Clever

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Good Faith, Cleverness, Industry

  As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78,

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• I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

  Jim Harrison

  Race, Michigan, Genuine

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Humanity, May, Ifs

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Wine always inspires sociability.

  Robert Mondavi

  Wine, Inspire

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• Technology was once a substitute for dealing with people, but today it is at the heart of sociability.

  Mark Penn

  Heart, Technology, People

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• My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

  Carrie Fisher

  Way, Introversion

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• Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

  May Sarton

  Self, People, Solitude

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Opportunity, Play

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• I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.

  Alice Munro

  Jobs, Children, Real

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 05, 2011

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• Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Struggle, Animal, Law

  "Mutual Aid as a Factor in Evolution". "The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest". Book by Upton Sinclair, 1915.

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• Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

  Barbara Holland

  Home, Joy, Rats

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• The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

  Paul Goodman

  Issues, People, Grace

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• A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Government, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Climbing, Social, Murphys Law

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• No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Song, Likes, Congeniality

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Gentleman Called”, p.76, Open Road Media

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