Quotes about Dinner
Tonight the special was chicken pot pie, but most of the regulars were concentrating on whiskey.
- Alice Hoffman
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.
- Ronald Reagan
There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.
- Madeleine L'Engle
They're a good family...One can tell a great deal around a dinner table...I think the closest we ever come in this naughty world to realizing unity in diversity is around a family table. I felt it at their table, the wholeness of the family unit, freely able to expand to include friends, to include me even through Austin's and my suspicions of each other, and yet each person in that unit complete, individual, unique, valued.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
- Oscar Wilde
To begin with, I hate these new-fangled intermediate meals. Why can't people eat enough at luncheon to last till dinner?
- Edith Wharton
I want to buy pizza, but my players don't want pizza; maybe they don't love pizza. Because I said when we make a clean sheet, I will buy everybody a pizza. Maybe they wait until I say, 'Okay, a good dinner.' I told them, the clean sheet, I buy everybody a pizza. I think they wait until I improve my offer: 'Okay, a pizza and a hot dog.'
- Claudio Ranieri
If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh.
- Tom Douglas
I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.
- John Updike
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
- George Eliot
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
- F Scott Fitzgerald