Dinner Quote by Mary Katharine Ham

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's…

— Clifton Fadiman

Buying wine is a political act.

— Jonathan Nossiter

Grown-up parties are so dull they make me want to throw a tantrum and hurl red wine on the nearest cream-damask armchair.

— Claudia Winkleman

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

— Andre Simon

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an…

— Roland Barthes

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

— William Nicholson

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

— Pat Paulsen

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

— Michael Broadbent

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

— Homer

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable…

— Oscar Wilde

Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour happens to…

— Isabella Bird

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

— Athenaeus