Best 552 quotes in «dinner quotes» category

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience.

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

Nothing is known for sure, even the person who was there isn't entirely sure he or she had the same response as the other in that moment. One person might have fallen head over heels, the other might have been thinking about what to have for dinner and inadvertently making eye contact.

Now there is something about [Tuukka] you probably don’t know and that is he loves chicken wings more than any person I’ve ever met in my life. If he could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner he would.

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

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

One of my favorite things being on movies is that when you're working, it's the best thing that's ever happened, and then in the downtime, you socialize and go to dinner.

One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.

Orson Welles, who said to Anita Bryant, Stop picketing me. What I said was I was a thespian. Never got a dinner!

[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli. But I can't remember what I said to Alison that night that made her laugh so hard. But she got me right away and I got her right away.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

People come to my shows and know that they're going to hear about what's going on in the world - what's happening at the moment. My material is as new as anything on the dinner table.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.

Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.

Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist.

Rip Van Winkle, who said, Don't make the bed; I'm just going to the bathroom. Never got a dinner!

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

Sex, that’s meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that’s heavy. That’s like an hour.

She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.

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

Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!

Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

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.

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

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.

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

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