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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

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

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

The single most useful ingredient on the planet. In a pinch you can scramble them and call it dinner. But it only takes five eggs, a little milk and a handful of cheese to make a fat, sassy cheese soufflé.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.

they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.