Dining Quotes

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. (Peter Ustinov)
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. View quote
Anita Diament
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining. View quote
Robert Jordan
The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care. View quote
Jack Vance
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man can not live without cooks. He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining? View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. View quote
Steven Pressfield
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Schizophrenia beats dining alone. View quote
Oscar Levant
You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level. (Charlie Trotter)
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. View quote
Gregory Maguire
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room. View quote
Amanda Pays
Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too. View quote
Antoinette Perry
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. View quote
Conrad Hall
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife. View quote
Carl Honore
Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change. View quote
John Walters
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards. View quote
Louise Slaughter
Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress. View quote
Ludwig Bemelmans
If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing? View quote
Marian Burros
The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything. (Marian McPartland)
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you. View quote
Paul Lynde
Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining. View quote
Rafael Vinoly
I'm very proud [to be part Italian] ... Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. ... I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding. But I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-round happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know – veggies, fruit and salad – then when I get home I'll have something else. View quote
Ariana Grande
Giraffes do use their long necks to browse leaves, at the tops of acacia trees - but such current function, no matter how vital, does not prove that the neck originally evolved for this purpose. The neck may have first lengthened in context of a different use, and then been coopted for better dining when giraffes moved into the open plains. Or the neck may have evolved to perform several functions at once. We cannot learn the reasons for historical origin simply by listing current uses. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould