#Social Life Quotes

“Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.”

“We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.”

“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”

“Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.”

“I was unpopular my whole life.”

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”

“Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.”

“It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.”

“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.”

“This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.”

“He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?”

“To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.”

“I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.”

“A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.”

“Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.”

“Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.”

“One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.”

“People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.”

“One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.”

“...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.”

“Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.”

“Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.”