Tablecloth Quotes

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does. (Anton Chekhov)

You might think the word "homemade” is just a word we use as a marketing ploy. But what you don't realize is that the staff sleeps here at night. If your tablecloth is wrinkled, that's why.

Scott Adams

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

Harper Lee

My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive-Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he is not very important. They give me information and they give their comrades gratification, but that's all; gloom, indignation, aspiration in plenty, and plenty of stains on the tablecloth and coal-dust in the mine-but no living beings to experience them.

E. M. Forster

This is insane,” she said. "Why would mortals make it so difficult to get two little glasses of white wine?” "Human nature, my love.” Edward grinned and set his knee against hers under the tablecloth. "The desire of a few to dictate morality to the whole. And why do the masses submit willingly? Apathy. Or, perhaps, the opportunity to experience the thrill of the forbidden!

Kage Baker

Much of the tablecloth was a series of grey smudges outlined in a large, irregular patch of yellow that looked distressingly like a urine stain.

Bill Bryson

With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.

Beth Ditto

A kid under a tablecloth insists he's a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.

Richard Siken

There were many guests at the table Misfortune, jealousy, and sloth Acting fine, drink the wine Spill it on the tablecloth - "Feast"

Steve Kilbey

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

Ellen DeGeneres