Alive Quote by Peg Bracken

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 a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

— Lin Yutang

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

— Mick Jagger

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

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

— Alexander McQueen

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

— MacKenzie Scott

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 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

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 have completely cut out the partying but if there's a celebration I'll have a little cocktail.

— Megan McKenna

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

— Oscar Wilde