After Dinner Quotes

60 After Dinner quotes by 55 unique authors

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and… — Michael Cunningham
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. — Oscar W. Firkins
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are. — Will Rogers
I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are… — Johnny Depp
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… — Art Donovan
Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert! — Dan Meyer
For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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… — Benjamin Disraeli
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner. — Spike Lee
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll… — Marilyn Monroe
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. — William Shakespeare
Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his… — Lynne Truss
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… — Elizabeth Strout
After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours,… — Nicholas Sparks
I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked… — Nicole Krauss
All of us are taking the night off," Wrath said abruptly. "We need some regroup time." Rhage snorted from across the table. "You're not going… — J R Ward
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,… — Charles Bukowski
The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and… — Sylvia Plath
They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner. — Gail Carriger
I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a… — Jean Rhys
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss.… — Winston Churchill
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… — Guy de Maupassant
So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if… — Erin Morgenstern
I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget… — Lauren Oliver

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