Quote by Julie Powell

“Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.”

— Julie Powell

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

— Marcel Proust

“Outside the window, people threw dinner parties.”

— Olivia Laing

“DINNER went off without a hitch up until the part where people actually sat down at the table and began to eat. After that…

— Stephen Osborne

“Guests aren't trouble[...]they're a blessing. Having no one to cook for, now, that's a sadness.”

— Laini Taylor

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

“Life is a food chain, and it's better to be the diner than the dinner.”

— Jim Davis

“We see our customers as invited guests to a party and we are the hosts.”

— Jeff Bezos

If you ruin the main course of a dinner party, it ain't all that tragic. Just laugh!

— Ree Drummond

“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

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

— Bryant McGill

“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