Causes Quote by Lewis Carroll

Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a crowd of…

— William Shakespeare

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“My lady, would you care to inspect the menu for dinner? Cook is doing her best to accommodate on such short notice. I believe…

— Tracy Anne Warren

“You might, for example, be excused for declining an invitation to dinner when the menu offered was dead calf with fungus in heated dough,…

— Paul Roche

The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off…

— Ward McAllister

“There was no serious talk during the meal (“Food and palaver don’t mix”

— Stephen King

“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

Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Dinner doesn't start without me.”

— Cayla Kluver

“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