Quotes About Socializing

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts. Mr. MacNatt was an auto-parts salesman; Mrs. MacNatt was shaped like a pigeon and sold Avon. They had got my parents doing things like taking bus trips to factory outlets and playing a dice game called "bunko" and hanging around the piano bar at the Ramada Inn.

an excuse to bring out the bottle of sherry and visit

I'll have a martini...two at the most. Three, I'm under the table...four, I'm under the host.

It is always reasonably easy to get conversation going in a pub, and it will be a black day for detectives when beer is abolished. After

Well, you look well on it.' `I feel well. You look well.' `I'm well. I'm very well.' `Well, that's good.' `Yes.' `Good.' `Good.' `Nice of you to drop in.' `Thanks.' `Well,' said Arthur, casting around himself. Astounding how hard it was to think of anything to say to someone after all this time.

Now, said Benjy mouse, to business. Ford and Zaphod clinked their glasses together. To business! they said. I beg your pardon? said Benjy. Ford looked round. Sorry, I thought you were proposing a toast, he said.

Asking people about their opinions is a very good way of making friends. Telling them about your own opinions can also work, but not always quite as well. Nowadays

We learn, often through painful self-discipline and self-cauterization, those qualities which are supposed to be 'innate' in us: patience, self-sacrifice, the willingness to repeat endlessly the small, routine chores of socializing a human being.

I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject.

Come and have a cocktail. It's nearly lunch time.

Does anyone—want tea?

Miss Lyall, whose principal interests in life were the observation of people round her and the sound of her own voice, continued to talk.

Only trying to make conversation, friend.' 'Don't bother - it's an overrated activity at the best of times.

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

I personally love grilling, but it's a 15- to 20-minute commitment in entertaining.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.

When I go out for dinner with friends, we all put our phones aside and the first person to pick up their phone has to pay the bill.

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.

When I do club appearances, it's girls who come up and get their photos taken with me, not just guys.