Top 8 Cocktail Parties Quotes

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

Memories, People, Cocktail Parties

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

Renata Adler

Philosophy, Littles, Cocktail Parties

Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

Maureen Dowd

Party, Talking, Cocktail Parties

"Lost in Space" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2013.

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

Lin Yutang

Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

John Podhoretz

Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties