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Famous After Dinner Quotes

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

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. β€” Fred Allen

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

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

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

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

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. β€” William Makepeace Thackeray

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. β€” Ward McAllister

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. β€” Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. β€” Joan Crawford

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs. β€” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared. β€” Jesse Browner

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

To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad. β€” George Ellwanger

Short After Dinner Quotes

  • My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. β€” Orson Welles
  • A party without cake is really just a meeting. β€” Julia Child
  • After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. β€” Oscar Wilde
  • In an ideal world, I’m eating dinner at home before I have a DJ gig. β€” Hannah Bronfman
  • That's what life is all about: Let's have a party. Let's have it tonight. β€” Lilly Pulitzer
  • Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist. β€” Michael Broadbent
  • Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. β€” Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.' β€” Michael Stipe
  • The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. β€” Rebecca Harding Davis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Family Dinner Quotes

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

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

We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way. β€” Ann Druyan

Dinner Date Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dinner With Friends Quotes

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

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

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

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table. β€” Dalai Lama

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine. β€” Jill Clayburgh

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends. β€” Nelson Demille

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less. β€” David Brooks

Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people. β€” Salman Rushdie

There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way. β€” Kate Moss

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends. β€” Tom Ford

Dinner Conversation Quotes

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

A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year." β€” James Keller

I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” β€”Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life. β€” Chuck Klosterman

Christmas Dinner Quotes

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. β€” Shel Silverstein

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice. β€” Jim Butcher

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

On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner. β€” John Nettles

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun. β€” Miranda Cosgrove

I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone. β€” Christopher Moore

You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize... there is no beanbag. β€” David Letterman

Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982. β€” Lesley Nicol

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours. β€” Busy Philipps

House Party Quotes

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. β€” Emily Dickinson

From education to employment, housing to trust in the police, politicians from all parties must understand the different issues affecting individual communities. β€” Rishi Sunak

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. β€” Lettie Cowman

Follow the drip, follow the drip! β€” Robin Harris

I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties. β€” Florence Welch

We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots. β€” Ronald Reagan

I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. β€” Clarence Clemons

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also. β€” Emily Post

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI. β€” Charlie Brooker

My father never missed a drink in his life. Or a joint. Or a party. Or a chance to get laid. He also never missed a day of work, or a house payment, or a car payment. I never went hungry, although he did a couple of times so I wouldn't. β€” Christopher Titus

Drinking Party Quotes

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives. β€” Kurt Cobain

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is. β€” Billy Carter

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer. - W. C. Fields

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer. β€” W. C. Fields

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you. β€” William E. Gladstone

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage. β€” Sadie Frost

Time flies when you are having fun. β€” Albert Einstein

Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up. β€” Patrick Rothfuss

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly. β€” Winston Churchill

I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them. β€” Si Robertson

β€Ž''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible. β€” Tove Jansson

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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

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

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

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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