Communication Quote by Ann Patchett

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

— Barbara Walters

“As far as his father was concerned, “we were informants,” Jonathan said, borrowing a term from anthropology. Dinner conversations could at times resemble an…

— Ariel Sabar

“A dinner party is the oldest experiment. Trap a bunch of souls in a room. Faces move like painted moons, rising and setting, as…

— Jardine Libaire

“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape…

— Maurice Renard

Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some…

— Phillip Lopate

Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a crowd of…

— William Shakespeare

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that…

— Craig Brown

“The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be overheard. It…

— Bauvard

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

— Alfred Hitchcock

“...Dialogue is an activity that represents a state of relations going well beyond tolerance...You can coexist with people without ever having to speak meaningfully…

— Gustav Niebuhr

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think,…

— Caroline Dhavernas