Dinner quotes
453 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook."
"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."
"The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance."
"And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner."
"What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?"
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"Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable."
"So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!"
"The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity."
"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."
"The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing."
"It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar."
"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."
"Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen."
"Only hire people you want to have dinner with."
"When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."
"Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added"
"When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?"
"If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?"
"Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously."
"You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that."
"Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner."
"I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week."
"I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy."
"Now I know what a TV dinner feels like."
"The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed."
