Fannie Hurst Quotes

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.

Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.

I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.

My father found cocktail parties challenging.

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.

You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.

I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.

I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group.

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

I'm not a party person.

Wherever it is, as long as I have a room full of people ready to have a good time, I will take them there and I will keep them up late.

People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at.

I want people to know we throw real parties. We don't need more boring libertarian or conservative conferences.

Super Bowl parties are not my thing.

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

It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.