Dinner Party Quotes

84 Dinner Party quotes by 75 unique authors

When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of… — Jonathan Raban
I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny. — Lorrie Moore
I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good… — Jenny Slate
Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future… — Phillip Lopate
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis. — Phillip Lopate
I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties. — Morena Baccarin
You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same… — Toby Young
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. — Boris Johnson
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know. — Marian Keyes
I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook… — Lucy Punch
If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you… — Ellen Malcolm
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed… — H. L. Mencken
Revolution is not a dinner party. — Sun Yat-sen
Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at… — Sally Quinn
I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well. — David Hare
In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's… — Madonna Ciccone
I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because… — Ina Garten
I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties.… — Ellen DeGeneres
When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates… — Roger Ebert
I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. — Hugh Hefner
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. — Simon Hoggart
I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone… — Hugh Jackman
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at… — Damian Lewis
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. — W. Somerset Maugham
I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about… — Gwyneth Paltrow

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