Cocktail parties Quote by Elsa Maxwell Download Open image “The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil” — Elsa Maxwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cocktail parties Cocktails Invention Oil Party Worst
We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs. — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining. — Martha Stewart 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
I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture. — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
“After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.” — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
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 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 reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share
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
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
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 don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, 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… — Renata Adler Copy Share
I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene.… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything. — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested… — John Irving Copy Share
