"Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
"
— Ron White

"There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not needing - the constant jostle and noise of a party or bar or... whatever."
— Charles de Lint (Jack of Kinrowan: Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon)

"We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you do'nt fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity."
— Fred Hampton

""What do you know about women?"
"They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable.""
— Katie MacAlister

"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs."
— Andy Warhol

"It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon."
— Martin Cruz Smith

"The Tea Party

I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
'Twas very small-
Three guest in all-
Just I, myself and me.

Myself ate all the sandwiches,
While I drank up the tea;
'Twas also I who ate the pie
And passed the cake to me. Jessica Nelson North"
— jessica Nelson North

"To read is to empower
To empower is to write
To write is to influence
To Influence is to change
To change is to live.
"
— Jane Evershed

""I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty."
— George Washington (George Washington's Farewell Address)

"Half of the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to harm-but the harm does not interest them"
— T.S. Eliot

"School should be the best party in town"
— Peter Kline

"I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline."
— Alain Badiou (The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics)

"Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?"
— Nigel Slater

"Vergnügen ist ein Lied der Freiheit, - Aber es ist keine Freiheit."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"Einige Junge unter euch suchen das Vergnügen, als sei es alles, und sie werden getadelt und verurteilt. - Ich würde sie weder tadeln noch verurteilen. Ich würde sie suchen lassen."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"So süß klingt allen Menschen das Wort Freiheit, dass selbst Keckheit und Frechheit überall Anklang finden, weil sie mit der Freiheit einige Ähnlichkeiten haben."
— Francesco Petrarca

"One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her print dress and white apron to array herself in blue and pearls, the day changed, put off stuff, took gauze, changed to evening, and with the same sigh of exhilaration that a woman breathes, tumbling petticoats on the floor, it too shed dust, heat, colour; the traffic thinned; motor cars, tinkling, darting, succeeded the lumber of vans; and here and there among the thick foliage of the squares an intense light hung. I resign, the evening seemed to say, as it paled and faded above the battlements and prominences, moulded, pointed, of hotel, flat, and block of shops, I fade, she was beginning. I disappear, but London would have none of it, and rushed her bayonets into the sky, pinioned her, constrained her to partnership in her revelry."
— Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)

"Cleave away, O epoch./I am hamburger. "
— Greg Santos