E. W. Howe Quotes

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.

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.

The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.

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.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

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

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

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.

I really don't go to any parties.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.

I like to set up bars at my parties so people can make their own cocktails and mix and match and teach each other different things.

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.

I don't party much, but I am open to parties.

Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.

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

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

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.

I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

I'm not going out to parties every night.