Dinner Quotes

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

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

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

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

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

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

I wouldn't say I was organised at all.

I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?

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.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have.

Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

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

Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. On the subject of Mr. Bean

Well, dinner would have been splendid

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people.

It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling.

I'm kind of an old romantic.

I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused; when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

I am deeply touchednot as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner, but nevertheless it is a sentimental occasion.

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time.

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.

Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and retro clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

From one casual of mine he picked this sentence.

'After dinner, the men moved into the living room'. I explained to the professor that this was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner;

but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

In New York, people are very overbooked.

You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.