Best 552 quotes in «dinner quotes» category

Some only break their Fast, and so away: Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed: The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed: He's most in debt that lingers out the Day: Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay.

Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.

Sophia Loren, whose new baby asked her, Is all that for me? Never got a dinner!

Sonny Von Bulow, who said to her husband Claus on their honeymoon, Stop needling me. Never got a dinner!

So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

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

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

Sweat it out then back home to my man to make dinner. #hausWife

Sydney Poitier, who said to Lester Maddox, Guess who's not coming to dinner? Never got a dinner!

Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a dinner!

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

Thailand's seafood industry is the third largest in the world. And much of it is ending up on our dinner tables.

Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.

The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

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

The captain of the Titanic, who said to room service, Who sent for all this ice? Never got a dinner!

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

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

The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we accept that they’re doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner.

The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

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.

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

The most intense thing I’ve ever done was bring a girl to Passover dinner.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could be out to dinner or having a drink at a bar, and someone could just give me a violin, and I've got to be ready to play.