Dinner party Quotes

Revolution is not a dinner party.

— Sun Yat-sen

I aspire to be a good dinner party host.

— Sara Cox

I cook. Well, if I'm giving a dinner party I get in help.

— Princess Michael of Kent

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

— Hugh Hefner

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

— John Heilemann

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

— Lorrie Moore

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

— Nora Ephron

If you ruin the main course of a dinner party, it ain't all that tragic. Just laugh!

— Ree Drummond

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

— Joe Bastianich

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

— Lewis Carroll

There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions -…

— Brunello Cucinelli

A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'

— Sophy Burnham

“If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like…

— Oscar Wilde

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from…

— Barbara Walters

There should be no rules at your dinner party except for people to eat a lot and enjoy a long night where…

— Antoni Porowski

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else…

— Toby Young

Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat…

— Ted Allen

I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me…

— John Schlesinger

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so…

— Anonymous

Once I was hosting an important dinner party at our house - everything was perfect, candles were lit, the house smelled amazing…

— Jeremiah Brent

I'm actually kinda quiet off stage, a lotta people don't realize that. I was at a dinner party recently, a bunch of…

— Brian Regan

As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal…

— Brian Molko

People are more willing to talk about child abuse. When this whole McMartin thing went down, I was at a dinner party…

— Laura Dern

“It was a pity she couldn't do justice to the meal, which featured Scottish salmon, steaming roast joints, venison haunch accompanied by…

— Lisa Kleypas

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party…

— Naomi Wolf

I once hosted a dinner party where I had two guests with some serious food restrictions - one was vegan and the…

— Jeremiah Brent

Life is very tough, you know. You sit at a dinner party and talk to the person on your right or your…

— Joan Rivers

“America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons,…

— Bill Bryson

“But—let me tell you my cat joke. It's very short and simple. A hostess is giving a dinner party and she's got…

— Philip K. Dick

“You want to hear me tell a funny and romantic story about us at a dinner party that you’ve heard a thousand…

— Jeff Menapace

Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an…

— J. P. Donleavy

“It had been a long time since she had been served such exquisite food. The lukewarm offerings at the London soirees and…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Once when I was young-maybe more than once-when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in…

— Amy Chua

“Gary Cooper called to invite me to a dinner party he was giving for Clark Gable at his house. When I accepted…

— Farley Granger

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

— Marian Keyes

'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little…

— Natalie Martinez

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

— Phoebe Cates

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

— Nubar Gulbenkian