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Quotations about Parties
One cannot have too large a party. ~Jane Austen, Emma, 1815
A House Party consists, broadly speaking, of a company of from four to twenty guests gathered together in the Wilderness in the name of Hospitality for a spirited contest in Wardrobes and Parlor Tricks. ~Gideon Wurdz (Charles Wayland Towne), "House Parties," Eediotic Etiquette, 1906
However, there are some men, especially old men, who are more given to wine than to women, and find their greatest pleasure in drinking parties. Now whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. ~Erasmus, translated by Betty Radice, 1986
Of all the pretenses of the formal party season, the hardest, I find, is pretending that your clothes fit. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling; and, to crown all, Kinnaird and I had to conduct Sheridan down a dād corkscrew staircase, which had certainly been constructed before the discovery of fermented liquors, and to which no legs, however crooked, could possibly accommodate themselves. We deposited him safe at home... I carried away much wine, and the wine had previously carried away my memory; so that all was hiccup and happiness for the last hour or so... ~Lord Byron, 1815
Every time a champagne bottle pops, a party angel gets its wings. ~Terri Guillemets, journal, 1993
A sudden hubbub shook the hall...
The palace bang'd, and buzz'd and clackt...
The twilight melted into morn...
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Sleeping Beauty," 1830
By half-past four... a mad-house in full swing could have offered no comparison to this place... ~F. W. Robinson, A Very Strange Family, 1890
I trust I am not a spoil sport, but there is one thing I deplore,
And that is a party next door...
A party next door never really gets going until you are trying for some much-needed sleep,
And when it does get going, why awake is much easier than your temper to keep...
~Ogden Nash (1902ā1971), "The Party Next Door"
Neighbors are people who wonder when that damned party will end. ~Life, 1926
The young people danced away till nine at night ā nine is a late hour for the "early birds"... ~Frederick William Robinson, Twelve O'Clock, 1861
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Font Club may run a little late tonight. We're having a Raising Helvetica party. ~The Middle, "True Grit," 2016, written by Jana Hunter and Mitch Hunter [S8, E4, Brick]
How good it was of you to think of calling our visit a party! ~Etta Merrick Graves, The Castle Builder, 1916
A Christmas family-party! We know nothing in nature more delightful! ~Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Dinner"
...we went to Wood's at the Pell Mell (our old house for clubbing), and there we spent till ten at night. ~Samuel Pepys, diary, 1660
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. ~Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, 1930
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