Dining Quotes

• Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Opportunity, Artistic, Great Art

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

  Julia Child

  Thanksgiving, Food, Soul

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• One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Eating Good

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Years, Preparation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dog, Animal, Pet

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 17, 2010

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Sitting, Tables, Like You

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• Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

  Rene Redzepi

  People, Treats, Occasional

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

  John Walters

  Change, People, Trying

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• I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Book, Food

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.64, Algora Publishing

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• I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

  Amanda Pays

  Red Lipstick, Rooms, Conversation

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• I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach.

  W. C. Fields

  Believe, Empty, Stomach

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• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Witty

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 13, 2010

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• The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Food, Cooking

  "Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne".

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• . . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sex, Home, Two

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.773, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humor, Dining Alone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

  Barbara Johnson

  Food, Weight Loss, Dessert First

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

  Anita Diament

  Heart, Religion, Rooms

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• I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

  Conrad Hall

  Writing, Sitting, Tables

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• I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Kitchen, Want, Rooms

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• Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Food, Cooking

  Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

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