Cocktail parties Quote by Lin Yutang

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

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

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 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

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

I am not a party kind of a person. I like to sit down with friends with a drink and talk.

— Barun Sobti

I really don't like parties. I circle the room with a glass of water disguised as a gin and tonic - so that people…

— Jean Marsh

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

— E. W. Howe

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

— Robert Breault

I don't really party. I'll occasionally have a drink.

— Jake Johnson