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The Host's Guide
We ranked every set in our collection by what 5,000+ verified reviewers actually buy again — and matched each one to the kind of party it belongs at.
Short on time
Best overall
Drinking Quotes, First Edition
The set that started it all, and the most reviewed in the collection. Bogart, Hemingway, Churchill — 25 quotes that carry any cocktail hour.
See the setBest for a dinner party
Wine Quotes
Quieter humour that works at a seated table, not just a bar. The set people buy when the guest list skews mixed.
See the setBest to give away
Love Quotes
Five colourways including Sherbet and Sorbet, so it suits a shower or a wedding table without looking like a party favour.
See the setFirst, the thing under the glass
A cocktail glass sweats. Paper absorbs that water, then gives up: it pills, it sticks to the base of the glass, and it arrives at the table in pieces. That is the whole reason five-star bars use cotton — it holds condensation without disintegrating, and it leaves nothing behind on the glass.
Five Star Napkins have been supplied to hotels and resorts for over a decade, and Forbes Travel Guide has trusted the same product for more than ten years. What changed recently is that the quote sets made them worth keeping on a home bar cart rather than in a service cupboard.
How we ranked them
These are all our own sets, so we did not pretend to referee between brands. Instead the order comes from our own review data: total verified reviews per set, weighted by rating, across a catalogue averaging 4.91 stars. A set with 249 reviews has been tested by a lot more dinner parties than one with 5.
Underneath each entry we have added the occasion it suits, because volume alone will not tell you whether a whiskey quote belongs at your mother-in-law's birthday.
“Never trust a man who doesn't drink.”Humphrey Bogart
Best overall · Cocktail hour
The most reviewed set we make, and the one most likely to get picked up and read. The writing does the work: Bogart, Hemingway and a run of lines dry enough to survive a second reading. Twenty-five quotes across the pack means the table never repeats itself.
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Best for a seated dinner · Book club
Softer humour than the drinking set, which is exactly why it travels further. “A party without wine is just a meeting” lands with people who would find a whiskey joke a bit much. This is the set to buy if you host mixed groups.
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Best for showers and weddings · Best gift
The only set with five colourways — White, Black, Red, Sorbet and Sherbet — which is why it ends up on engagement parties and bridal showers. The quotes lean literary rather than sentimental: Fitzgerald and Austen, not greeting-card copy.
Shop love quotes“Shaken, not stirred.”James Bond, Goldfinger
Best for repeat hosts · Literary crowd
Written for people who already own the first edition and host often enough to need new material. Twenty-five fresh quotes, heavier on the literary end — Pasteur on wine and philosophy sits alongside Bond. Buy both editions if you entertain the same friends regularly.
Shop second edition“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you Champagne.”Champagne Quotes
Best for celebrations · New Year's Eve
Narrow on purpose. Coco Chanel on drinking champagne in love and out of it, Dorothy Parker on never having enough of it. If the occasion involves a toast, this is the set — and it is the one that photographs best next to a coupe.
Shop champagne quotes“Marriage: When dating goes too far.”Marriage Quotes
Best for anniversaries · Rehearsal dinners
The set that gets read out loud. It is affectionately unromantic, which is what makes it work at an anniversary party where everyone in the room has been married long enough to laugh. Not the one for the ceremony itself.
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Best for a home bar · Best for men
Newest of the seven and the most specific. Twenty-five whiskey quotes, which is either exactly right for your bar cart or entirely wrong for your dinner table — there is no middle ground, and that is rather the point. The reliable answer to what to get someone who owns three bottles of rye.
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| Set | Best for | Reviews | Colours | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drinking, First Edition | Cocktail hour | 249 | White, Black | $34.95 |
| Wine | Seated dinner | 54 | White, Black | $34.95 |
| Love | Showers, weddings | 43 | 5 colours | $34.95 |
| Drinking, Second Edition | Repeat hosts | 33 | White, Black | $34.95 |
| Champagne | Celebrations | 23 | White, Black | $34.95 |
| Marriage | Anniversaries | 22 | White, Black | $34.95 |
| Whiskey | Home bar | 5 | White, Black | $34.95 |
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Not on the list
Most hosts end up with three or four sets — one for cocktails, one for dinner, one to give away. Buying them together is where the pricing changes.
Before you order
Single use. They are organic cotton rather than a cloth napkin you launder — the point is the feel of cotton without the pile of laundry after a party.
No. Each pack holds 50 napkins across 25 different quotes, so a table of guests will not read the same line twice. Single-quote packs are sold separately for birthdays.
Plan on two to three napkins per guest for a cocktail party. A single 50-pack covers roughly 20 people comfortably.
4.5" × 4.5", the standard cocktail square. Larger quarter-fold and dinner sizes are available if you are serving food rather than drinks.
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Rankings reflect verified review volume and rating across the Five Star Napkins catalogue as of 2026. All products listed are our own. Prices shown in USD and subject to change.
