Dinner Quotes - Page 2

• The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner.

  Henny Youngman

  Wine, Way, Usual

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• Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Men, Interesting

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

  Michael J. Fox

  Ensemble, Tables, Form

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• Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.

  Michael Symon

  Kids, Emotional, Greek

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

  Michael J. Fox

  Player, Night, People

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• I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

  John Updike

  Party, Men, Two

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• Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Blow, Flying, Literature

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• Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

  Samuel Pepys

  Inspirational, Strange, Feasting

  'Diary' 9 November 1665

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• A dinner lubricates business.

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

  Life, Business

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell, Vol. viii, p. 67, 1791.

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• Givers of great dinners know few enemies.

  Martial

  Enemy, Giver, Knows

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• Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.

  Roland Barthes

  Wine, Snacks, Ornaments

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

  Francis Bacon

  Lunch Break, Cooking Dinner, Breakfast

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• Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Promise, Despair, Compatible

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Vanity Fair”, p.247

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• Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

  Diana Vreeland

  Tables, Poor, Darling

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• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Men, Wife

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.205

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• Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Music, Food, Literature

  Quoted in The NewYork Times, 16 Nov 1967.

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• We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Mother, Jobs, Dad

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• My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

  David Byrne

  Food, Leftovers, My Favorite

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• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Clever, Happy New Year

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 17 (written in 1896)

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• In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

  James M. Barrie

  Fire, Fling

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

  Mark Twain

  Food, Men, Surface

  Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Thinking, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales”, p.390

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• When I was meeting people in L.A., guys always thought if they paid for dinner, they deserved a blow job. But generally, I'll say this - and I'll say it proudly - I can't sleep with someone if I don't have a connection with them.

  Katy Perry

  Jobs, Sleep, Blow

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

  John Wayne

  Women, Home, Long

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• Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

  Richard Whately

  Food, Tables, Arguing

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