Jilly Cooper Quotes

I don't play golf or all those things people normally do for business. I do parties. That's where I bring people in, showcase ideas and, in the end, do deals.

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.

Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.

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.

As my guests leave even my most simple parties, I consistently hear the same thing: 'That was the best time I ever had,' and it's always me saying it. But I do know in my heart they all feel the same way, probably.

A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.

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

I don't give parties, and I'm not in that social scene. I couldn't care less.

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.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

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.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.

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.

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.

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

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

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the decide how long the Five Hundredth Anniversary Parade is going to be and where does it start and when does it start and which nobleman gets to march in front of which other nobleman so that everyone's still speaking to me at the end of it, plus I've got a wife to murder and a country to frame for it, plus I've got to get the war going once that's all happened, and all this is stuff I've got to do myself. Here's what it all comes down to: I'm just swamped, Ty.

Having a nightclub in your house really helps for having a party, because then you don't need to go out.

It's pretty difficult to promote something the week after Christmas and the week before New Year's.

Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.

When I stopped wanting my New Year's Eve to be perfect, to bring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right. When I was young, I was always looking for the best party to be at, to ring in the New Year, and I always ended up in the car going, "Happy New Year."

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