Dinner Guests quotes

Dinner Guests

7 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

7 quotes
Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist

"Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot."

Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin Author, Humorist

"Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth."

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