Sociability Quotes - Page 2

• Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wine, Wish, Teeth

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.192, Penguin

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• I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Lonely, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Jobs, Organization, Support

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• The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Imagination, Hatred, Enemy

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.

  Florence King

  Heart, People, Community

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• If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

  Florence King

  Punishment, Misanthrope, Mets

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• If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

  Florence King

  Suffering, Fool, Doe

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• I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Country, Book, People

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.156, U of Nebraska Press

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• Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Home, People, House

  Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.78

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• Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

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• I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Country, People, May

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Photograph, Term

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• A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Party, Eye, Hands

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• at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Fire, Leaving, Moments

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• Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  People, Solitude, Age

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• Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.

  Ernesto Illy

  Coffee, Should, Conversation

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• It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Fall, Eye

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• There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Loneliness, Agreement, Solitude

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dirty, Feet, Veins

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

  Jean Drapeau

  Art, Real, Drinking

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• My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

  Rita Rudner

  Growing Up, Father, Home

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

  E. B. White

  Weather, Dubious, Tasks

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• My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.

  Anne Lamott

  Airplane, Ideas, Flying

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.55, Anchor

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• I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Humans, Human Beings

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.115, New Victoria Publishers

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