Socializing Quotes

“If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.”

“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.”

“[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.”

“We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.”

“I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me.”

“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”

“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”

“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”

“As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.”

“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”

“To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.”

“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.”

“No matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they're early, so naturally you're not ready.”

“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”

“I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.”

“It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.”

“A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.”

“I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.”

“The sooner every party breaks up the better.”

“On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.”

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

“Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.”