“My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.” KindSocialTaughtGrewConversationGrew UpEconomicsTablesFolksDinnerEconomistSocial ScienceDinner Table Author:Seth Gordon
“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.” IfsFoundSocialRoomsPartyKingsEnglandDinnerThrowingGatheringCocktailsDinner PartyMolotovMolotov Cocktail Author:Madonna Ciccone
“It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.” PeopleGivingEndsFactsTurnsSocialPartyBallsDinnerInvitesInvitationsBack And ForthSocial LifeFacts Of LifeYou AgainInvitingDinner PartyPingPing Pong Author:Laurie Colwin
“[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.” GamesSocialPartyWatchesNew YorkPaperCharityDinnerDevotedVolunteerDollsBreakdownOne WomanDinner PartyPitifulArrangingSocialitesVolunteer Work Author:Margaret Case Harriman
“Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.” DoeSocialPartyMeetingsDinnerGentlemanDefectsRefinementDinner PartyLadies And GentlemenDepriving Author:Frances Trollope