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Parties6 quotes
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The sooner every party breaks up, the better. — Jane Austen · 1816Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after. — Lord Byron · 1819The folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!... Five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow... Four horses and four servants taken out for nothing but to convey five idle, shivering creatures into colder rooms and worse company than they might have had at home. — Jane Austen · 1816If there were more food and fewer people, this would be a perfect party. — Ron Swanson · 2012What could possess anyone to throw a party? I mean, to have a bunch of strangers treat your house like a hotel room. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1991Misanthropy3 quotes
The sooner every party breaks up, the better. — Jane Austen · 1816The folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!... Five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow... Four horses and four servants taken out for nothing but to convey five idle, shivering creatures into colder rooms and worse company than they might have had at home. — Jane Austen · 1816If there were more food and fewer people, this would be a perfect party. — Ron Swanson · 2012Alcohol1 quote
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after. — Lord Byron · 1819Introversion1 quote
The folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!... Five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow... Four horses and four servants taken out for nothing but to convey five idle, shivering creatures into colder rooms and worse company than they might have had at home. — Jane Austen · 1816Wine1 quote
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after. — Lord Byron · 1819