Cocktails Quote by Elsa Maxwell Download Open image “Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!” — Elsa Maxwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cocktails Cooking Culinary Endure Food Innovation Invention
I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture. — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cocktail shots are a medium where people deny themselves the privilege of enjoying a drink! — Ajit Balgi Copy Share Image
There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker. — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find. — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me. — Aya Nakahara Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the… — Letitia Baldrige Copy Share Image
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
