Best 552 quotes in «dinner quotes» category

King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!

King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!

Laney held up a hand. "I checked it out. He went there on scholarship and paid the rest with student loans. And he's good looking, too. Nate and I met him for dinner last night, and I subtly learned that he's looking to meet someone" "How did you learn that?" "I asked him if he was looking to meet someone" "that is subtle

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.

Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

Long John Silver's wife, Short, who said to John, If the shoe fits... Never got a dinner!

Lot, who said to his wife as she was being turned into a pillar of salt, Stop shaking! Never got a dinner!

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.

Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!

Moshe Dayan, who donated his eye to CBS. Never got a dinner!

Misery loves company which is ironic because it rarely throws dinner parties.

Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!

Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner!

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders.' I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

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

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

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

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

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.