Food Quote by Everett M. Skehan

“...it was clear to everyone at the table who had any experience with men and alcohol—especially men who had won international literary prizes—that he…

— Ben Lerner

“Can we go in to supper now?" she asked. "I'm starved. I hope they serve something other than lobster patties and caviar." He linked…

— Tracy Anne Warren

“Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state…

— Barbara Pym

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

— Philippa Gregory

“The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn't willing to take the time to get to know them and…

— Julia Child

“All the pilgrims rushed out to see. I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I…

— Joseph Conrad

“Basically, it’s a matter of rolling up your sleeves and learning to work with people who don’t think the way you do. From there,…

— Chip Gaines

“There was no serious talk during the meal (“Food and palaver don’t mix”

— Stephen King

“The restaurant, Bongiorno's, was bad and didn't know it. Everything was presented with a passive-aggressive flourish, as though we probably weren't savvy enough to…

— Jonathan Lethem

“The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a…

— Nora Roberts

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“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