Quote by Judith Martin

“You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.”

— Bryant McGill

“One can become quite proficient at this amiable patter; the trick is to omit the instructive parts when attending formal dinner parties outside the…

— Judith Martin

“After you have been doing this a bit, you won’t have to work so hard and dinner will take no time at all. Future…

— Thug Kitchen

“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.”

— George Washington Carver

“It is important not to be careless about supper when you are alone. It is easily done, boring as it is to cook for…

— Per Petterson

“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-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.”

— Marcel Proust

“Dinner will not be perfect, but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you…

— Emily Giffin

“Have a good look at the thing. Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery. I don't want to waste…

— H.G. Wells

“Pat yourself on the back for what you do get done. Use to-do lists, alarm clocks, and other ways of booby-trapping your environment. Form…

— John R. Perry

“Mere prattle without practice”

— William Shakespeare

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

— Mark Rylance