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

“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.”

— Marcel Proust

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

— Dov Davidoff

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

— Nigel Slater

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

— Boris Johnson

I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been…

— Chrissie Hynde

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…

— Fiona Apple

We all have firm favourites we bring out at a dinner parties, but it's nice to try something a bit more edgy, or more…

— Tom Aikens

I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and would do…

— Winona Ryder

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

— Anonymous

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

— Donald T. Regan

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine…

— Sally Quinn

It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them…

— Laurie Colwin

When you meet people at dinner parties, you'll ask what they do and it might be a woman who'll say: "Oh I used to…

— Mary Portas

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

— Daniel Handler