Brevity Quote by MacKenzie Scott

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

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

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

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

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

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small…

— Tom Ford

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

— E. W. Howe

We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.

— Geoffrey Moore

I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

— Alexander McQueen

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

— Barun Sobti

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

— Hal Boyle