Dinner Party Quotes - Page 2

• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Reading, Animal

  Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report"

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• If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Would Be, Looks

  "Seinfeld". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1989 - 1998.

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• I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

  Lucy Punch

  Party, Guests, Dinner

  "Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

  Lorrie Moore

  Party, Tables, Dinner

  "Moore's better blues". www.cnn.com.

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• Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.

  Clinton Smith

  Party, Flower, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

  Prince Harry

  Party, Age, Dull

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

  Sally Quinn

  Funny, Religious, Party

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

  Hugh Hefner

  Party, Bed, Dinner

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2009.

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• I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

  Tom Ford

  Party, Cocktails, Dinner

  "My List: Tom Ford in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2012.

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• I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Party, Use, Dinner

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, 2011.

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• Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

  Phillip Lopate

  Running, Party, Night

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.146, Basic Books

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• The 20-minute walk I take is better than the 3-mile run I never start. Having people over for take-out is better than never having people to an elegant dinner party.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Party, People

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• I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

  Caroline Rhea

  Party, Thinking, Guests

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• Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it,
  just loves it.
  He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

  Ted Allen

  Party, People, Guests

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• People are more willing to talk about child abuse. When this whole McMartin thing went down, I was at a dinner party with about eight people, all from different backgrounds and from all over the world. And every single person at that table had had some weird experience as a child. I think everyone has - whether it was with a babysitter, or playing doctor, but usually when some older person tries to come in contact with you. It's amazing how much we block out.

  Laura Dern

  Children, Block, Party

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• My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Party, Soul, Dinner

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.101, Baen Books

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• Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Party, Land, Two

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• Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Party, Coffee, Taken

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Party, America, People

  "Where the heart is". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

  Daniel Handler

  Party, Dinner, Evening

  "The Grim Grotto". Book by Daniel Handler, 2004.

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• As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

  Susan Cain

  Party, Boys, Long

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• I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. "And you so intelligent!" "Excuse me?" said tom "Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it." "How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option

  Stephen Fry

  Party, Intelligent, Years

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.42, The Overlook Press

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• A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]

  Mo Johnston

  Change, Baby, Party

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• He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.

  John Lennon

  Party, Coffee, Class

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• The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

  Isabella Beeton

  Party, Giving, Flying

  Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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