America Quote by Martha Stewart

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

— Geoffrey Moore

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

— Hal Boyle

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

— Elisabeth Shue

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

— Elsa Maxwell

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

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

— MacKenzie Scott

Everyone else is just cocktails.

— Charlotte Bronte

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

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

— Robert Stack

All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans…

— Gwen Ifill