Quotes About Sociability

#1. Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind. But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

Jack Kerouac

#2. Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#3. I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.

Alan Titchmarsh

#4. I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Jim Harrison

#5. Wine always inspires sociability.

Robert Mondavi

#6. The issue is not whether people are "good enough" for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

Paul Goodman

#7. Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Clay Shirky

#8. Loss of time through sociability, idle talk, luxury, even more sleep than is necessary for health, six to at most eight hours, is worthy of absolute moral condemnation. It

Max Weber

#9. There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished. By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.

Edith Wharton

#10. I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

Sherry Turkle

#11. Sociability belongs to the most dangerous, even destructive inclinations, since it brings us into contact with beings the great majority of whom are morally bad and intellectually dull or perverted.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#12. There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along ...

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

Jean Drapeau

#14. [On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#15. Technology was once a substitute for dealing with people, but today it is at the heart of sociability.

Mark Penn

#16. It was nothing more than the instinct of sociability, but it made me realise how long it had been since I'd been smiled at by a stranger. How long since I'd had someone to smile back to.

Alexis Hall

#17. Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

Pittacus Of Mytilene

#18. compatriots needed to weave into the social fabric bakeries close to home or bread trucks that deliver; like a sort of societal gluten, sources of bread constitute networks of sociability that structure daily life.

Steven Laurence Kaplan

#19. The first thing which philosophy undertakes to give is fellow-feeling with all men; in other words, sympathy and sociability.

Seneca.

#20. He wanted to instill that sociability in his son; he believed that being curious about people was one of the few crucial life skills that could be fully nurtured in a place like East Orange.

Jeff Hobbs

#21. Why not a new village of farmers, citizens of the world through schools and radio and space-consuming transportation, grouped together in friendly sociability, building directly upon the soil?

Angie Debo

#22. Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

E.B. White

#23. Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#24. Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.

Ernesto Illy

#25. Sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth,

Anonymous

#26. Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.

Billy Collins

#27. Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#28. Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. All sentient beings developed through natural selection in such a way that pleasant sensations serve as their guide, and especially the pleasure derived from sociability and from loving our families. - Charles Darwin

Rick Hanson

#30. The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

Robin G. Collingwood

#31. The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

Lionel Shriver

#32. Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#33. We are born to talk to other people, ... we are born to be sociable and to sit together with others in the shade of the acacia tree and talk about things that happened the day before. We were not born to sit in kitchens by ourselves, with nobody to chat to. Mma Ramotswe

Alexander McCall Smith

#34. The Princess of Parma was a Courvoisier in that she was incapable of innovation in social matters, but unlike the Courvoisiers in that the surprises the Duchesse de Guermantes perpetually held in store for her engendered in her not, as in them, antipathy but a sense of wonder.

Marcel Proust

#35. My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

Carrie Fisher

#36. I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

Jane Austen

#37. I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#38. If you want to protect your pride, you don't need people to like you!

Wataru Watari