We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.
Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.
Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations ...
A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.