The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil. Elsa Maxwell
The cocktail party is a device for paying off obligations to people you don’t want to invite for dinner. Charles Smith
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. Terry Pratchett
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. Harold Macmillan
If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead. Luis Bunuel