Dinner Quotes

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. (G. K. Chesterton)
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. View quote
Samuel Pepys
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. (Douglas Adams)
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. View quote
James Bovard
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress. View quote
Jennifer Garner
This was a good enough dinner, to be sure but it was not a dinner to ask a man to. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night and then the nap takes me. View quote
Samuel Johnson
If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I am a trial lawyer.... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. View quote
Mario Cuomo
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. View quote
Gerald Ford
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. View quote
Jerome
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. View quote
Earl Derr Biggers