"[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it ..."
- Andrew Wilson
"In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtu..."
- Edith Wharton
"If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties."
- Oscar Wilde
"If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling."
- E.A. Bucchianeri
"However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments: real presences, under particular signs, of the happier order that faith can discover under..."
- Robert Farrar Capon
"She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone."
- Lawren Leo
"Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company."
- Marcel Proust