Quotes About Socializing

I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

His parents never go out or entertain; they have no dinner parties, no bridge group, no hunting buddies or luncheon pals. Like Lydia, no real friends.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

He then begs to make his dear Twemlow known to his two friends, Mr. Boots and Mr. Brewer - and clearly has no distinct idea which is which.

I like to have a Martini, Two at the very most— After three I'm under the table, After four I'm under my host.

The office party is a great place to meet everyone you've been emailing from ten feet away.

I'm not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to meetings. I'm a drunk. We go to parties.

Oh, hello, Mr. and Mrs. Buttington. Fanny has told me so much about you.

I can call up a friend and have them meet me for a drink in 20 minutes, and suddenly, the night unfolds into this glorious, uniquely New York situation. I wouldn't give it up for the world.

When I have time off, my friends and I will go to Universal Studios, the movies, out to eat, and shopping. I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

I was very naughty. That's the reason I didn't go very much to the university, because I was partying with my friends more than going to the university.

There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

I used to walk into a party and scan the room for attractive women. Now I look for women to hold my baby so I can eat potato salad sitting down.

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not, ' laughed Mrs. Jo…

Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.

People are already on Match and already going to Starbucks on first dates.

You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?

I haven't been invited to anyone's for dinner since the show began. I like eating with friends in restaurants instead. You all choose what to eat, have a starter, main and dessert, and then you go home.

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.