Best Quote by Grace Dent

Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but…

— Candice Olson

Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do…

— Peg Kehret

Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.

— Adrian Rogers

On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of…

— Emily Post

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

It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to…

— Alice Thomas Ellis

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

— Don Cheadle

I've had parties where I found photos of whoever is coming, put them in a cute little woven frame and used that as their…

— Jeremiah Brent

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

— Thom Filicia

“We spend prolonged periods in pubs and restaurants after all, whiling away the hours with friends, waiting in vain for the weather to ease.…

— Gabriella Bennett

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are…

— Christopher Alexander