Party Quotes - Page 15

• It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

  Lauren Willig

  Clever, Cutting, Long

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Secret History of the Pink Carnation”, p.232, Allison & Busby

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• Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion would be played again, often in these same places, in an oddly similar fashion two or three centuries later. The role of the leper was to be played by the poor and by the vagrant, by prisoners and by the 'alienated', and the sort of salvation at stake for both parties in this game of exclusion is the matter of this study.

  Michel Foucault

  Fashion, Memories, Games

  Michel Foucault (2013). “History of Madness”, p.6, Routledge

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• One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.

  J. B. Priestley

  Years, Missing, Delight

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• The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Ignorance, Gay, Political

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• She was plain and far from skinny or petite. As for parties...she'd rather be alone in a corner somewhere reading. She hated being nice to people she didn't like because her father wanted contributions. She hated being fake. All she wanted was to be herself.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Nice, Reading

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Unleash The Night”, p.185, Hachette UK

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• In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

  Woody Allen

  Two, Dresses, May

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I affected a yawn. "Well, like I said, it's a school night." In hopes of convincing myself more than him, I added, " if this party is something you'd be interested in, I can almost guarantee I won't be." There, I though. Case closed- page 77

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  School, Night, Guarantees

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• Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant music and happy voices talking and laughing. She guessed she was hearing hundreds of years of parties and celebrations that had been held at this shrine in ancient times, as if the memories had been freed along with the spirits. 'What is that?' Jason asked nervously. Piper slipped her hand into his. 'The ghosts are dancing.

  Rick Riordan

  Memories, Moon, Light

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• The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying.

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Ducks, Flying

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.

  Mindy Kaling

  Bye, Pockets, Cookies

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.218, Three Rivers Press

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• If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Liars, Goal, Parent

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• Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.

  Rick Riordan

  Hard Work, Done, Shows

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• I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.

  Holly Black

  Mean, People, Tables

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Smart, Sorrow, Dresses

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1043, Delphi Classics

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• The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.

  George Orwell

  New York, Paris, Japan

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.476, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

  George Orwell

  Country, Russia, Democracy

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It’s okay. I’m used to people not wanting me at their parties.” I pushed to my feet. The stars seemed to twirl a bit with the movement. “No big deal.

  J. Lynn

  Stars, Feet, People

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• Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hedgehogs, Metals

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.62, Penguin

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• There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Football, Mother, Book

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Holiday's eyes pooled with tears. And that pretty much made it a cry fest. Even Della joined in the tear party. Right then, Burnett walked in the office. His gaze went from one female to the other. Kylie could almost hear him groaning inwardly. "I...I'll be...right out there." Obviously even a hard-bodied vampire trained by the FRU wasn't capable of dealing with four crying women.

  C.C. Hunter

  Holiday, Eye, Office

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.181, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.

  Daniel Handler

  Beautiful, Empty, Used

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.190, Egmont UK

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• That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Together, Sticks, Chains

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

  Isaac Marion

  Sports, Home, Events

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

  J. K. Rowling

  Witty, School, Body

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

  George Orwell

  Endless

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.51, Oberon Books

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