Black Tie Party Quotes

#1. Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Plato

#2. The horse will always do right if he understands. This is very remarkable. It is true neither of human beings nor of dogs.

Muriel Wace

#3. Nothing says 'classy' like posting bond for your girlfriend so you can escort her to a black-tie dinner.

Linda Morris

#4. When you listen with your soul, you come into rhythm and unity with the music of the universe.

John O'Donohue

#5. The gift of speaking in tongues enables us to experience deeper prayer and thanksgiving

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.

Barack Obama

#7. Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

Dorothy Allison

#8. Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#9. Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.

Lisa Birnbach

#10. Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

#11. There is no nobility with bad manners.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#12. I turned myself into a vinyl hawk, scouring record shops for out-of-print LPs, studying them with Talmudic intensity. The music I loved would all be dug out of studio archives and put onto CD within a few years, but then it was still scratchy and moldy and entirely my own.

Jonathan Lethem