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“I have already established an elite body called The Knights of the Idiotic Table. We will be holding an annual dinner at which we'll…

— Stieg Larsson

“But it seemed manipulative to me to make the hungry sit like good dogs for their supper. And it did not surprise me that…

— Ron Hall

“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

“At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to…

— Noel Monk

“Now I have performed the part of a good host,” pursued Mr. Rochester, “put my guests into the way of amusing each other, I…

— Charlotte Brontë

To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.

— Debi Mazar

“If someone had the ability to sit at every table at once, he would hear nothing but good about himself, and yet even such…

— Joseph Roth

“constantly keeping in mind the truth that external things being beyond our power and subject to fortune are unimportant, to laugh rather than weep…

— Francis Caldwell Holland

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

— Linda Ellerbee

“A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not…

— James Whitcomb Riley

“They were strict in not offending those with whom they were in amity. They had high notions of the duty of observing faith to…

— J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean