Humorous Quote by Julie Powell

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

— Marcel Proust

“There are dinner parties ruined by guests, and there are dinner parties ruined by hosts, and then there are dinner parties when everyone contributes…

— Julie Powell

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Laini Taylor

“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 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

“It’s just a party, right? What could possibly go wrong?”

— Mari Mancusi

“One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Jim Davis

“a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf

“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Philippa Gregory