Social Gatherings Quotes

“Social gatherings, not infrequently, grow into the scenery of funny episodes on a Brueghelian canvas or become a psychosomatic arena with displays of emotional outbursts. They can indeed arouse confrontations of absence and attendance, of presence, past, and future. ("I hope she won't mind my leaving")”
― ERIK PEVERNAGIE

“My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

“Fiestas always began as if they were being held in a parlor, amid teacups.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros