Dinner Party Quotes

84 quotes by 76 authors

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. — George Carlin
Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after… — George Clooney
Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar -… — Gustave Flaubert
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
The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying… — Isabella Beeton
The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter. — Nubar Gulbenkian
He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's,… — John Lennon
Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control… — J P Donleavy
I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments.… — Judy Chicago
Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and… — Ann Patchett
I'm not a functional person because I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but I never do… — Fiona Apple
You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull. — Prince Harry
At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there. — Donald T. Regan
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
At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can cure people of… — Lynne McTaggart
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered,… — Maile Meloy
A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. — Mao Zedong
If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you,… — Taylor Swift
Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts. — Phoebe Cates

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