Cocktail parties Quote by Robert Breault

With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.

— Ree Drummond

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

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

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

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

The best part about holiday parties is the alcohol. You have a couple of drinks and you tell your coworkers and your superiors what…

— David Letterman

My late husband's family is not something I sit around and discuss at cocktail parties.

— Carole Radziwill

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

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