Time Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

“Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.”

— Art Buchwald

“The waiter came over to ask if all is delicious. As we have not yet ordered, it is certainly the perfect time to enquire.”

— Patrick McGuinness

“And you never know when a meal will be your last . . . None of us do.”

— Matt Ruff

“Another day will put some other plate on your table, more to your taste, but do not waste the food in front of you.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“I did not know it, but that was the last civilised dinner I was to eat for very many strange and terrible days.”

— H.G. Wells

“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

“There is one difference between a long life & a great dinner; in the dinner, the sweet things come last.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“We'll have supper in a little while, but I believe we should eat dessert first.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

What is said at the dinner table, stays there. Especially the things that really aren't supposed to be said at all.

— Anonymous

“We are told not to leave food on the table overnight: it draws the dead.”

— Anita Barrows

“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

“One dinner. One night. No repeats.”

— Whitney Gracia Williams