Party



A  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.

Quotes

 * 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.
 * Bible: Luke 15:23–24 (KJV)


 * 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


 * H E : Have you heard it's in the stars Next July we collide with Mars?S HE : Well, did you evah! What a swell party this is.
 * Cole Porter, ""


 * 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"

Idioms

 * Life of the party
 * Life and soul of the party
 * Party animal