Accounts Quote by E. W. Howe

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

— Martha Stewart

We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.

— Geoffrey Moore

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

— Elisabeth Shue

Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which…

— Barbara Walters

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

— Hal Boyle

Everybody likes a good cocktail.

— Cynthia Bailey

Everyone else is just cocktails.

— Charlotte Bronte

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

— MacKenzie Scott

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

— Fred Allen

In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

— Barbara Holland

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

— Lin Yutang

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

— Phyllis McGinley