Quotes About Party Guests

#1. His remorse and better judgment arrived, late as usual, like party guests riding in just after the social disaster of the season has already erupted.

Scott Lynch

#2. [On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

Dorothy Parker

#3. My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

Dylan Penn

#4. The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.

William Whewell

#5. I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

Caroline Rhea

#6. We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Jeff Bezos

#7. Politics is a trivial diversion from the business of living.

Marty Rubin

#8. You'll get a lot of 'no' RSVPs to your next party," I said, brushing the smoldering bits from my costume. His smile only widened. "This isn't the first party I've thrown where fewer guests left than arrived.

Jeaniene Frost

#9. Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.

Barbara Walters

#10. But why should I ask all the dull women in London to my parties? said Clarissa. And if Mrs. Marsham gave a party, did she invite her guests?

Virginia Woolf

#11. Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

Harold Town

#12. The two dresses she'd brought with her in case of - well, just in case - stood in the corner of her closet like guests who have come to the wrong party and are backing out the door.

Anna Quindlen

#13. Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.

Howard Zinn

#14. As my guests leave even my most simple parties, I consistently hear the same thing: 'That was the best time I ever had,' and it's always me saying it. But I do know in my heart they all feel the same way, probably.

Amy Sedaris

#15. Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

Peter S. Beagle

#16. I hate parties.
And a wedding is the biggest party of all.
All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.
He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them.
Then I have to greet them.

Sarah Ruhl

#17. If the flu situation in your town is serious, cancel a large long-awaited party you had scheduled, but promise the guests in an e-mail that you will reschedule the party as soon as possible.

Letitia Baldrige

#18. The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Phaedrus

#19. It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Brian Friel

#20. I need to get to that tea party and wake up the guests."
Jeb looks at me. "And how are you supposed to do that? Give a magical kiss to the half-baked hatmaker?

A.G. Howard

#21. Normally I don't approve of children staying up late,' he said finally, 'unless they are reading a very good book, seeing a wonderful movie, or attending a dinner party with fascinating guests.

Lemony Snicket

#22. There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.

Rhonda Byrne

#23. When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Ashley Greene

#24. It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#25. The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.

Joyce Carol Oates

#26. Death by family silver, I thought, before I could turn off that part of my mind.

Alan Bradley

#27. The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

Tom Waits

#28. The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing.

April Winchell

#29. When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

Roger Ebert

#30. When entertaining a party of six or more always use place cards. When guests know where they are sitting it puts them at ease immediately and they are assured you have given thoughtful consideration as to who their dinner partner will be.

Annie Falk

#31. The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

Ina Garten

#32. I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

Janet Fitch

#33. You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.

Trisha Goddard

#34. Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!

Andy Cohen

#35. Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

Karen Russell

#36. When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.

Norman Vincent Peale

#37. Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

Craig Brown

#38. I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

Leontyne Price

#39. The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

Sara Zarr