A Quote by Harold MacMillan

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Harold MacMillan

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Harold MacMillan
English - Celebrity
February 10, 1894 - December 29, 1986

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

Phyllis McGinley

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

Tom Ford

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

Graydon Carter

My father found cocktail parties challenging.

Justin Trudeau

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

Dorothy Malone

so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

John Irving

My late husband's family is not something I sit around and discuss at cocktail parties.

Carole Radziwill

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

Jilly Cooper

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

MacKenzie Scott

Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?

Louise Rennison

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

Ronan Farrow

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Mary Higgins Clark

During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.

Lauren Conrad

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.

John Hodgman

The truth was, I never liked the rose ceremonies. The cocktail parties beforehand are also difficult as there is so much stress and nervousness that's put on everyone.

Andi Dorfman

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Robin Hayes

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