Dinner Quotes - Page 38

• I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Water, Tennis, Study

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• No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Jesus, Interesting, Sense Of Humor

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• When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Freedom, Thinking, Doors

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.55, 1st World Publishing

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• Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wine, Men, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.192

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Believe, People

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• When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.

  Erma Bombeck

  Names, Tag, Always Smile

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• On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Husband, Men

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Artist, Gourmet

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1844, Delphi Classics

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• The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

  Russell Baker

  Bridges, Television, Entertainment

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Eight, Interesting

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

  Barry Goldwater

  Home, Men, Long

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• In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hollywood, Ends, Said

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  Ted Allen

  Wine, White, Cake

  "Ted Allen / 'Queer Eye' for a wine guy". Interview with W. Blake Gray, www.sfgate.com. October 27, 2006.

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• Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

  Hesiod

  Enemy, Invites

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.59, University of Michigan Press

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• An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sorry, Years, Actresses

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• Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

  Pietro Aretino

  Sex, Lunch, Desire

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.

  Paula Cole

  Men, Cooking Dinner, Laughing

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• If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Couple, Nice

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• How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

  Mark Burnett

  Beer, Thinking, Ideas

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• We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Drama, Air, Play

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• If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  History, Restaurants, Depends

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• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  Jack Nicholson

  Want, Certain, Very Good

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

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• Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

  Michael Dorris

  Dessert, Eating

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• When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of being attacked on the way, the traffic snarl-ups, the bland indifference of the city cops, they are unmistakably bragging.

  Jonathan Raban

  New York, Party, Cities

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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