Dinner Party Quotes
84 Dinner Party quotes by 75 unique authors
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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
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I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
— Lorrie Moore
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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
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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
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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
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I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.
— Morena Baccarin
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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
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
— Boris Johnson
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I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
— Marian Keyes
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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
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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
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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
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Revolution is not a dinner party.
— Sun Yat-sen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.
— Hugh Hefner
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The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
— Simon Hoggart
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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
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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
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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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
Who Wrote These Dinner Party Quotes
75 authors contributed a total of 84 Dinner Party Quotes, led by these top contributors: