Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

People are like, 'Was it fun? Did you eat lots of cake?'

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

I like to have a home for people just to have a lot of fun.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.

Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.

Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

I want to make sure everyone's having a good time because when I ask you to come to my movie, I'm throwing a party for you. I want you to enjoy it.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.

If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often.

I love to have a dinner party. I love to have people over. I like the feeling it creates in my home - having guests laughing and telling their stories - and I put a lot of thought into it. I plan my menu kind of depending on whatever mood I'm in.

People like me as a host.

Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

We're gonna have some fun tonight.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

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.

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

There's nothing better for hosting a show than a bunch of people daytime-whiskey drunk.

We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.