Dining Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while—I admit it—but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them.

  J. D. Salinger

  Couple, Hate, Mean

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.

  John Olsen

  Two, People, Generosity

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• I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

  Anthony Bourdain

  School, Thinking, Small Numbers

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• You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kitchen, Rooms, Eating

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.

  Michael S. Smith

  Beautiful, People, Fabric

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with wining and dining, reporting, analysing and cautiously predicting.

  Chester Bowles

  World, Ambassadors, Today

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• At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.

  Noel Whittaker

  Family, Home, Learning

  Noel Whittaker (2011). “Making Money Made Simple”, p.231, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

  Lewis Carroll

  Opposites, Gentleman, Misunderstood

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1114, Wordsworth Editions

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• Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?

  Danny Hillis

  Years, Tree, Lasts

  "WIRED SCENARIOS: - The Millennium Clock Danny Hillis". www.wired.com. December 06, 1995.

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• If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.

  Judy Woodruff

  Home, Technology, Space

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

  Lewis Carroll

  Giving, Gentleman, Rooms

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.971, Race Point Pub

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• I came home, the car was in the dining room. "How did you get the car in here?" "Easy, I took a left at the kitchen."

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  Carl Honore

  Art, Eating Well, Surfing

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• A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

  Bill Buford

  Food, June, July

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• To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Clever, Afternoon, Evening

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

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• My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.

  Christa Miller

  Husband, Kids, Sunday

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• Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wine, Oysters, White

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All about Sherlock Holmes”, p.177, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

  Candice Olson

  Rooms, Tables, Chairs

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• Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Nice, Dark, Fog

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.967, Race Point Publishing

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• The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wedding, Real, Distance

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• Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

  Kathy Lette

  Funny, Women, Cocky

  FaceBook post by Kathy Lette from Feb 25, 2013

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• The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, People, Kitchen

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• What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

  Roger Ebert

  Food, Loss, Track

  "Life Itself". Documentary, January 19, 2014.

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• The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Complaining, Would Be

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