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Famous After Dinner Quotes

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life. β€” Carla Gugino

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal. β€” Julia Child

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

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. β€” Samuel Pepys

Friends for a meal are easy to find, friends until end of life are difficult to find. β€” Thai Proverbs

Good wine must drink together with a good friend. β€” Vietnamese Proverbs

The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner. β€” Henny Youngman

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. β€” M. F. K. Fisher

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart. β€” Cesar Chavez

Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.' β€” Matthew Walker

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

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. β€” Oscar Wilde

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends. β€” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family. β€” African Proverbs

Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations. β€” M. F. K. Fisher

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. - Hugh Hefner

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. β€” Hugh Hefner

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience. β€” LeRoy Neiman

Short After Dinner Quotes

  • Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. β€” Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. β€” Michael Broadbent
  • Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. β€” William Makepeace Thackeray
  • When eating choose the place, when playing choose your friends. β€” Vietnamese Proverbs
  • Old friends are best. β€” John Selden
  • Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy. β€” Logan Pearsall Smith
  • An onion shared with a friend tastes like roast lamb. β€” Egyptian Proverbs
  • It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch. β€” Karlie Kloss
  • The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. β€” Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Old wine and friends improve with age. β€” Italian Proverbs

After Dinner Image Quotes

Dinner Guests Quotes

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life. β€” A.C. Grayling

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless. β€” Alison Bechdel

Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests. β€” John Cage

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot. β€” Fran Lebowitz

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests. β€” Prabal Gurung

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. β€” Marcus Terentius Varro

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth. β€” Calvin Trillin

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests. β€” Caroline Rhea

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. β€” Mason Cooley

Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party. β€” Ted Allen

Drinking With Friends Quotes

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason β€” W. C. Fields

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. β€” Ann Patchett

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. β€” Yann Martel

You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends. β€” Pamela Des Barres

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. β€” William Shakespeare

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way. β€” Shirley Maclaine

Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful. β€” Alcuin

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me. β€” Glenn Danzig

Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make. β€” Carl R Trueman

I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories. β€” Jane Goodall

Dinner Party Quotes

A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove. β€” Sam Haskins

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. β€” Matthew Sweet

At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can cure people of an illness, other then antibiotics. If you come up with anything, stop whatever you are doing and call me. β€” Lynne McTaggart

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. β€” Erma Bombeck

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament. β€” Sally Quinn

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. β€” W. Somerset Maugham

Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you've got the Ebola virus and you're about to sneeze. β€” Jeremy Clarkson

My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good. β€” Zach Galifianakis

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. β€” Simon Hoggart

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East. β€” Gustave Flaubert

Dinner Conversation Quotes

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business. β€” Jared Kushner

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet. β€” Judith Martin

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me. β€” Prince Harry

Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conversation, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table. β€” Curtis Stone

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. β€” Bob Ehrlich

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people. β€” Austin Butler

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time? β€” Hilton Als

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place. β€” Gwyneth Paltrow

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

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex. β€” Betty Dodson

Eating Dinner Quotes

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. β€” Adelle Davis

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. β€” Ronald Reagan

I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. β€” Sayings

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' β€” K. D. Lang

I feel like I would be a good stalker... F*ck yeah, I'd watch your whole damn family eat dinner, boy! β€” Theo Von

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday. β€” Michelle Obama

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99 β€” Lord Byron

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.' β€” Marie-Antoine Careme

When I have dinner, I get off my phone, smell my food, and chew it well. β€” Hannah Bronfman

In an ideal world, I’m eating dinner at home before I have a DJ gig. β€” Hannah Bronfman

Family Dinner Quotes

Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God. β€” Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table but all day long. β€” Phil Robertson

Whether it’s in the office or around the family dinner table, don’t avoid honest, clear conflict. It will get you the best car price, the higher salary, and the largest donation. It will also save your marriage, your friendship, and your family. β€” Chris Voss

In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. β€” Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco. β€” Dave Grohl

A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family. β€” Tommy Hilfiger

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. β€” Judith Martin

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together. β€” Gwyneth Paltrow

I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. β€” Tina Yothers

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates. β€” Sue Grafton

Dinner Time Quotes

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. β€” Henny Youngman

So I have no time for short-term things: dinners with people I won’t see again, tedious ceremonies to please tedious people, traveling to places that I wouldn’t go to on vacation. β€” Naval Ravikant

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner. β€” Tom Hanks

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject. β€” Peter Drucker

β€ŽYou cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner! β€” Stephen Colbert

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. β€” Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner. β€” Barry Goldwater

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. β€” Erma Bombeck

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. β€” Gerald R. Ford

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking. β€” Christopher Plummer

Dinner And A Movie Quotes

There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway. β€” Timothy Olyphant

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good. β€” Chris Kirkpatrick

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. β€” Wentworth Miller

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring. β€” Sylvester Stallone

When we do get a little time off, I tend to watch movies, go to dinners, and keep it low-key. β€” Nina Dobrev

I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside my apartment every day for weeks – all day, every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with [her]. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back. β€” Robert Pattinson

I remember the first date I ever went out on. It was in high school. Her name was Marguerite. She was kind of a heavyset girl... I took her out on one date. We went out for dinner and a movie and a dinner. β€” Kevin Nealon

It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event. β€” Regina Brett

When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I'm like a kid at Halloween. β€” Sasha Grey

I'm horrible at these things, 'cause I'm a horrible date.What's a good date? A nice dinner and a movie? I don't know. What are dates? An amusement park? What am I supposed to say? Hmm. I have no idea. β€” Drake Bell

Dinner Table Quotes

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be. β€” Meek Mill

All great change in America begins at the dinner table. β€” Ronald Reagan

Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table. β€” James David Vance

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. β€” Adrienne Rich

Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected. β€” Michael Symon

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. β€” Hugh Jackman

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count. β€” Rue McClanahan

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. β€” Oscar Wilde

I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken. β€” Paula Deen

I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms. β€” Nicholas Sparks

Dinner Date Quotes

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner. β€” Reese Witherspoon

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. β€” Marilyn Monroe

You don't want to seem too eager, too romantic - otherwise, it just looks a bit try-hard. But I do think that a first date should be intimate. So I'd choose a nice dinner somewhere cozy, not too crowded, with good wine. β€” Kit Harington

I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion. β€” Ben Savage

I'm not a functional person because I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but I never do that. I'm not really human. β€” Fiona Apple

I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight. β€” Lee Child

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe. β€” Shannen Doherty

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. β€” Anthony Bourdain

A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about. β€” Jessica Capshaw

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be. β€” Haruki Murakami

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More After Dinner Quotes

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a cafΓ© after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that. β€” Guy de Maupassant

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. β€” Oscar Wilde

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. β€” W. T. Purkiser

The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like. β€” Cato the Younger

Caffeine has an average half-life of five to seven hours. Let’s say that you have a cup of coffee after your evening dinner, around 7:30 p.m. This means that by 1:30 a.m., 50 percent of that caffeine may still be active and circulating throughout your brain tissue. In other words, by 1:30 a.m., you’re only halfway to completing the job of cleansing your brain of the caffeine you drank after dinner. β€” Matthew Walker

After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings. β€” Brad Shaw

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. β€” W. T. Purkiser

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner. β€” Dale Carnegie

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society. β€” Samuel Barber

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. β€” St. Francis De Sales

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. β€” Saint Francis de Sales

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner. β€” Joe Hill

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar. β€” Judith Martin

I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite. β€” Maria Sharapova

I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them. β€” Rodney Dangerfield

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues. β€” Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm a pescatarian, so I don't eat red meat or pork. So my dinners usually consist of seafood in some way. And maybe cookies after! β€” Misty Copeland

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. β€” Winston Churchill

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. β€” Elizabeth Strout

Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!' β€” Marlin K. Jensen

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. β€” Benjamin Disraeli

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a ChΓ’teaubriand and vegetables. β€” Arthur Rubinstein

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. β€” Joseph Conrad

During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days gone by, one found disappointment. I was looking for the rich after-dinner coffee that literally curdled cream if anyone was foolish enough to spoil it with cream. β€” Constance Spry

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. β€” Mary McCarthy

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner. β€” Spike Lee

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head. β€” Leo Tolstoy

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go. β€” Winston Churchill

[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. β€” Winston Churchill

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. β€” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion. β€” W. Somerset Maugham

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills." β€” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. β€” Oscar W. Firkins

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. β€” Peter Agre

Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight. β€” Argus Hamilton

Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel. β€” Dacia Maraini

When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles. β€” Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast. β€” George Saintsbury

Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops. β€” Art Donovan

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it. β€” Kin Hubbard

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner. β€” Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. β€” Sylvia Plath

Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers. β€” Augusten Burroughs

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