Dinner Quotes

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During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days… — Constance Spry
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have… — Desiderius Erasmus
Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more… — R.D. Blackmore
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. — Nicolas Chamfort
What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours,… — P. W. Singer
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible,… — Plutarch
A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all. — Penn Jillette
Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine... — Jimmy Buffett
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more… — Marcel Proust
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at… — Bill Bryson
A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island. — Johnny Carson
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. — Adelle Davis
It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden… — Charles Barkley
A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost. — Charlotte Gray
Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the… — Jill Shalvis
At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their… — Lilian Jackson Braun
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. — Samuel Pepys
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background… — Barbara Walters
I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so… — Jennifer Lawrence

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