Dinner Quotes

• The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

  Julia Child

  Happy Times, Together, Sacred

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• Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

  Kris Carr

  Kitchen, Magic, Happens

  "My Crazy Sexy Meal Plan" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2013.

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• There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny, Life, Sweet

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “My Best Short Stories (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

  Julia Roberts

  Motherhood, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Kings, Food

  "Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income". Book by Brian Tracy, May 2, 2006.

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• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Food

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Lasts, Hours, Pleasure

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• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

  Ronald Reagan

  Change, America, Presidential

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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

  Henny Youngman

  Wine, Way, Usual

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• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Talking, Cooking

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• The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

  Judith Martin

  Food, Teaching, Accomplishment

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

  Michael J. Fox

  Ensemble, Tables, Form

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

  Samuel Pepys

  Inspirational, Strange, Feasting

  'Diary' 9 November 1665

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• Givers of great dinners know few enemies.

  Martial

  Enemy, Giver, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

  John Frankenheimer

  Want

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• My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Health, Thinking, Lunch

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• Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Lunch, Tea, Breakfast

  Hilaire Belloc (1957). “Cautionary Tales for Children”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

  Holly Near

  People, Surprise, Pleasure

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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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