Bottom Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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

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

— Hal Boyle

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

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 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

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

— Martha Stewart

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

— Diana Penty

A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef.

— Anonymous

Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

“Cocktail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters. It is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is…

— Dale DeGroff