Artist Quote by Erro

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

— Christopher Morley

“The café was the last in the street, if not in all Paris, to lack both a juke-box and neon lighting – and to…

— John le Carré

“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

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in…

— Nana Mouskouri

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that…

— Craig Brown

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

— Don DeLillo

“He could pass off the inferior bottles on tables seven and four. Table seven knew nothing of wine, sending back a bottle of Riesling…

— Kerry Greenwood

“but the most sumptuous thing in the room at that moment was naturally the sumptuously laid table, though, of course, even that was comparatively…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he…

— Charles Dickens

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.…

— Nancy Gibbs

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

“Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.”

— Philippa Gregory