Party

A party is a gathering of people, usually invited by a host, for the purposes of socialising, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature food and beverages, conversation, music, dancing, and other forms of entertainment.

• The sooner every party breaks up the better.
  • Jane Austen, Emma (1815), Ch. 25

• And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
  For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
  • Bible: Luke 15:23–24 (KJV)

• A party without cake is just a meeting.
  • Doubtfully attributed to Julia Child
  • "Fans adore quoting Julia Child, but often get it wrong", The Boston Globe (17 November 2020)

• I entertained on a cruising ship that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (1945), "Notebooks, K"

• I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Ch. 3

• HE: Have you heard it's in the stars
  Next July we collide with Mars?
  SHE: Well, did you evah!
  What a swell party this is.
  • Cole Porter, "Well, Did You Evah!"

• Certainly, there is nothing else here to enjoy.
  • George Bernard Shaw, when asked if he was enjoying himself at a party.
  • Reported in: Pass the Port (Oxfam, 1976)

• 'So like one's first parties,' said Miss Runcible, 'being sick with other people singing.'
  • Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930), Ch. 1

• The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
  • Katherine Whitehorn, Sunday Best (1976), "Husband-Swapping"

• Life of the party
• Life and soul of the party
• Party animal

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