Cocktail parties Quote by Geoffrey Moore

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

— Martha Stewart

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

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

— E. W. Howe

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

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

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

— MacKenzie Scott

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

— Hal Boyle

All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans…

— Gwen Ifill

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

— Elsa Maxwell

A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I have completely cut out the partying but if there's a celebration I'll have a little cocktail.

— Megan McKenna

I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in…

— Matt Lauer