Chris Rock Quotes

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.

What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.

When you're eating something and someone asks 'Is that nice?' No it's really revolting - I always eat stuff I hate.

If a woman and a man who have an argument keep talking they keep fighting.

When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners."

Couples who come to understand one another often part.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. You don't mess with men that way.

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.