110 Cocktail Parties Quotes
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Famous Cocktail Parties Quotes
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. — Fred Allen
Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is. — Billy Carter
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic. — Denis Thatcher
If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish. — Lana Turner
At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other. — Ann Landers
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate. — Dorothy Parker
I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door. — Joe Walsh
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self. — John D. MacDonald
At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other. — Ann Landers
A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.' — Michael Stipe
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. — James Joyce
Coquetry is the champagne of love. — Thomas Hood
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius. — Elsa Maxwell
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. — Alfred Hitchcock
Short Cocktail Parties Quotes
- Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship. — David Niven
- A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good. — Ernest Rutherford
- The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. — Gerald R. Ford
- Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch. — W. C. Fields
- Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. — Ernest Hemingway
- Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. — Herb Caen
- When having a party, go first; when walking in the water, go after. — Vietnamese Proverbs
- Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. — Marquis De Sade
- A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.' — Foster Friess
- Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cocktail Parties Quotes
Invest in startups. Start a company. Create a book, podcast, video. Create a software product. go on many first dates. go to a cocktail party. read a lindy book. move to a big city. buy bitcoin. tweet. — Naval Ravikant
Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour. — Louis Pullig De Gouy
I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis. — Robert Osborne
I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples. — Lauren Collins
Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison]. — Victoria Wood
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. — Harold MacMillan
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door. — Mary Higgins Clark
Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list. — Robert Stack
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
We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning. — Dorothy Malone
Cocktail Dresses Quotes
To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. — Lorna Luft
My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake. — Joan Rivers
Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels! — Sheridan Smith
Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand. — Lisa Birnbach
When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing. — Tim Gunn
Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies. — Paz Vega
I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there. — Joan Collins
Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!' — Christina Hendricks
I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress? — Farrah Fawcett
I don't have a nightlife. People say, "You need these cocktail dresses for all the receptions" - except I don't go, because we have no idea if we are going to be in session. But my husband has encouraged me to, shall we say, keep up with fashion. — Nancy Pelosi
Cocktail Quotes
The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about. — Dean Martin
I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here! — Sylvia Rivera
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. — Federico Garcia Lorca
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone. — Lance Armstrong
A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion. — Jeffrey Stepakoff
While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window. — Jim Norton
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis
I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language. — Luke Pasqualino
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water. — Neville Cardus
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water. — Jean Sibelius
Cocktail Drinks Quotes
I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger. — Michelle Tea
I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. — Dudley Moore
People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social. — Nolan Bushnell
Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of the moment. Someone told me that grapefruit was a great detoxifier and I decided I wanted to start cleaning out my liver WHILE I was having a cocktail. — Chelsea Handler
High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven. — Lucius Beebe
Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either. — P. J. O'Rourke
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. — Lewis Gannett
We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail. — David Sedaris
When I have a cocktail, I love a vodka and cranberry. But when I was a kid my mother was really against drinking, because it was so bad for your skin. She'd say, "Stephanie, it's much better to wash your face with vodka." — Stephanie Seymour
People Writing About Cocktail Parties
More Cocktail Parties Quotes
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats. — Matt Taibbi
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail. — Ayn Rand
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil — Elsa Maxwell
We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you. — Shauna Niequist
Life's just a cocktail party - on the street. — Mick Jagger
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble. — Dorothy Parker
We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs. — Geoffrey Moore
Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it. — Robert Mapplethorpe
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties. — Oscar Wilde
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny. — T. S. Eliot
If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them. — Sayings
I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it. — Johnny Carson
I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends. — Tom Ford
I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited. — Alexander McQueen
The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining. — Martha Stewart
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 is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party. — Barbara Walters
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. — Renata Adler
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. — Renata Adler
Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party. — Letitia Baldrige
I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party. — Scott MacDonald
What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it. — Anna Quindlen
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty. — Elsa Maxwell
In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room. — Madonna Ciccone
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 cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you. — P. J. O'Rourke
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies. — Lawrence Durrell
A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan. — Ronan Farrow
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party. — Zoë Heller
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. — Renata Adler
I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting. — Irvine Welsh
Getting last-minute cancellations can put a black cloud over an event before it has even started. If it's a large, casual cocktail party, then I'll often not say anything until the next day. But if you're not able to make it to a small, seated dinner, you have to call the host - there's nothing worse than an empty chair at a table. — Derek Blasberg
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
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