Dinner Quotes
1426 quotes by 1096 authors
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The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
— Jules Renard
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The thing thats caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to…
— Johnny Manziel
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Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do…
— James Keller
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the…
— David Auburn
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Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked…
— Charles Dickens
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At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
— Moliere
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Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.
— Peter Kreeft
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark…
— Walter Bagehot
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But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
— Mark Rylance
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It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to…
— Judith Martin
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Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is…
— Hugh Newell Jacobsen
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No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.
— Unknown Author
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Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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