Annuals Quote by Anonymous

“I have already established an elite body called The Knights of the Idiotic Table. We will be holding an annual dinner at which we'll…

— Stieg Larsson

“When all the media assertions were put together, the police appeared to be hunting for a psychotic lesbian who had joined a cult of…

— Stieg Larsson

“The counts of Anjou and their lovely, but wicked wives gained such an unsavory reputation over the centuries that the people of England were…

— Thomas B. Costain

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with…

— Willard Spiegelman

Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns,…

— Jaimy Gordon

“The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.”

— Kirstie Collins Brote

“My visit to Her Highness was an agreeable surprise for me. Instead of being ushered into the presence of an over-decorated woman, sporting diamond…

— Manu S. Pillai

“He’d heard of this woman. The Dame de Doubtance, they called her: a madwoman and a caster of horoscopes. Gaultier gave her house-room and…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“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

“The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“For it must be remembered that at the time I knew quite nothing, naturally, concerning Milo Payne, the mysterious Cockney-talking Englishman with the checkered…

— Harry Stephen Keeler

“The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea; she dressed as if for dinner. The tea-table offered an anomalous and picturesque repast; and…

— Henry James