Best party & cocktail-parties Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.”

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Author:Ina Garten

“I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.”

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Author:Michael Heizer

“Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.”

“Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.”

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Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.”

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Book:I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book

Source: I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book

“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.”

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Author:Dorothy Parker

“Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.”

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Author:Julia Child

“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.”

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Author:Barbara Walters

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

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Author:E. W. Howe

“Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.”

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Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe

Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe

“To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.”

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Author:Elsa Maxwell

“Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.”

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Author:Jilly Cooper

“Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you.” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.”

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Author:Ronan Farrow

“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.”

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Author:Letitia Baldrige

“the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?”

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Author:Letitia Baldrige

“I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also chatter with my friends and family. It's a cocktail party with a fraction of the awkwardness of an actual cocktail party.”

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Author:Roxane Gay

“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.”

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Author:Lisa Birnbach

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

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Author:Robert Stack

“It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.”

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Book:No Nice Girl Swears

Source: No Nice Girl Swears

“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.”

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Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“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.”

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Book:The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.”

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Book:With Love and Irony

Source: With Love and Irony

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

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Author:Alexander McQueen

“There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do.”

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Author:Mickey Rooney

“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.”

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Author:Tom Ford

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