After-dinner Quotes

Jean Jacques Rousseau," he answered, "is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends. (Stendhal)
Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain. Would God renew me from my birth I'd almost live my life again. So sweet it seems with thee to walk, And once again to woo thee mine - It seems in after-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine -. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat. View quote
Eddie Mair
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. View quote
Winston Churchill
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. View quote
Joseph Conrad
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
After-dinner talk; Across the walnuts and the wine. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are. View quote
Will Rogers
No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after-dinner speech will counteract it. View quote
Kin Hubbard
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one. (Charles Dudley Warner)