Cocktail parties Quote by Julia Child Download Open image “Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.” — Julia Child ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cocktail parties Cocktails Food Party Peanuts
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 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
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 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 want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
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 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
The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts. — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“Standing up through the Citroen's open sunroof, my six-foot-three-inch, red-cheeked sister pointed a long, trembling finger at the perpetrator and with maximum indignation yelled:… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background. — Julia Child 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… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
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… — John Irving Copy Share Image
