Cocktail parties Quote by Hal Boyle

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

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 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

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

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

— E. W. Howe

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

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

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

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

— Mick Jagger

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

— MacKenzie Scott

Cocktails and food are social.

— Jon Taffer