Party
social event
A party is a gathering of people, usually invited by a host, for the purposes of socialising, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature food and beverages, conversation, music, dancing, and other forms of entertainment.
—Katherine Whitehorn
Quotes
edit- The sooner every party breaks up the better.
- Jane Austen, Emma (1815), Ch. 25
- And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
- A party without cake is just a meeting.
- Doubtfully attributed to Julia Child
- "Fans adore quoting Julia Child, but often get it wrong", The Boston Globe (17 November 2020)
- I entertained on a cruising ship that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (1945), "Notebooks, K"
- I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Ch. 3
- HE: Have you heard it's in the stars
Next July we collide with Mars?SHE: Well, did you evah!
What a swell party this is.
- Certainly, there is nothing else here to enjoy.
- George Bernard Shaw, when asked if he was enjoying himself at a party.
- Reported in: Pass the Port (Oxfam, 1976)
- 'So like one's first parties,' said Miss Runcible, 'being sick with other people singing.'
- Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930), Ch. 1
- The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
- Katherine Whitehorn, Sunday Best (1976), "Husband-Swapping"