Quotations for Party Invitations
And the night shall be filled with music... ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. ~Edwin Denby, "Forms in Motion and in Thought"
A sudden hubbub shook the hall...
The palace bang'd, and buzz'd and clackt...
The twilight melted into morn...
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Sleeping Beauty," 1830
I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, @wildthyme, tweet, 2009, betsygarmon.com
One cannot have too large a party. ~Jane Austen, Emma, 1815
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters;
Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
~W. H. Auden, "Death's Echo," 1936
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling... ~Lord Byron, 1815
Let us recognize that our wings are to frivol with. The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a Good Time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. ~Don Marquis
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ~George Santayana
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet...
~Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1812
They are inclined to translate the famous dictum of Aristotle as though it ran, "man is by nature a party animal." There is, of course, much truth in their contention. ~X.Y.Z., "The Opportunity of the Mugwump," in The Sewanee Review, 1894 [context: political parties
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
~Dorothy Parker
How the rest of the world does hate the people who have a good time. ~Noah Lott (George V. Hobart), The Silly Syclopedia, 1905
FUN is the safety-valve to let off the steam pressure out of the boiler to keep the old thing from busting. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague
If we don't go crazy once in a while, we'll all go crazy. ~M*A*S*H, "Bulletin Board," 1975, written by Larry Gelbart and Simon Muntner
The man who does not relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. ~Elbert Hubbard, "Richard Wagner," Little Journeys to Homes of Great Musicians, 1901
...time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married, 1912 [quoteinvestigator.com]
I guess we never get too old to do goofy stuff; we just get old enough to think we do. ~Leave It To Beaver, "Beaver's Rat," 1961, written by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher
Every time a champagne bottle pops, a party angel gets its wings. ~Terri Guillemets, journal, 1993
Life is momentous,—never more so than when the Birthday chimes are ringing their new peals. ~Wigram, as quoted in J.R. Macduff, Birthdays, 1893
To good eating belongs good drinking. ~German proverb
Here’s to champagne, the drink divine,
That makes us forget our troubles;
It’s made of a dollar’s worth of wine
And three dollars worth of bubbles.
~Smart Toasts for the Smart Set, published by James Sullivan, 1902
Come, landlord, fill a flowing bowl, until it does run over;
To-night we all will merry be, to-morrow we'll get sober.
~Popular song, c.1700s
Punches and juleps, cobblers and smashes
To make the tongue waggle with wit's merry flashes
~Sign hung over the door of English Harry Hill's barroom, New York, founded by sportsman Harry Hill (1827–1896)
Tea is so tame. A cocktail is lots more naughty. ~Richard Florance, "It: The Usual Play with an Unusual Ending," in The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, December 1915
Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good. ~French proverb
When the wine goes in, strange things come out. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, translated from German by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
...love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea. ~Henry Fielding
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was the time of the greatest special Christmas party recorded in all the history of the world. ~Pliny Berthier Seymour, Woodhull, 1907
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. ~Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, 1930