Abuse Quote by Cyril Connolly

“Dining in restaurants is disappointing more often than not, I have learned. Even in the most celebrated restaurants---especially in the most celebrated restaurants. It's…

— Giulia Melucci

“There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please…

— Yuan Mei

“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape…

— Maurice Renard

“All the episodes from my stories and novels are not about food only, but about meals. You can eat food by yourself. A meal,…

— Wendell Berry

“On, no. I hate those arty little places. I like dining in a hotel full of all sorts of people. Dining in a club…

— Edna Ferber

Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! -…

— Anonymous

Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want…

— Mason Cooley

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have…

— Michel de Montaigne

People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence.…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

“Well, then,” Mrs. Byrne says. “Let’s get back to work. Dorothy, your suitcase is in the foyer. We’ll discuss sleeping arrangements at supper.” She…

— Christina Baker Kline

Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a crowd of…

— William Shakespeare

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough…

— Paula Deen