#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.”

“Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.”

“In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.”

“No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.”

“I must have my share in the conversation.”

“You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.”

“I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.”

“Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.”

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”

“I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.”

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

“People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.”