Dinner Quotes

She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

~ Orson Welles

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

They served Good Food but only a G, an O and a D were lit up. Personally, I doubted God dined there. Unless God was keen on samonella poisoning and rat droppings in the hamburgers. But then again, what did I know?

~ Julie Kenner

Poppy: What makes you think I'm having dinner with you?Jake: Because you can't sit in your room and eat ice cream and chips two nights in a row. You'll get scurvy. You need vitamin C.

~ Sarah Mayberry

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

~ Amit Kalantri

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

~ Amit Kalantri

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

~ Amit Kalantri

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

~ Amit Kalantri

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

~ Amit Kalantri

Diet food is not a meal its a medicine.

~ Amit Kalantri

All worries are less with wine.

~ Amit Kalantri

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

~ Amit Kalantri

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

~ Amit Kalantri

A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it.

~ Amit Kalantri

We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.

~ Amit Kalantri

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

~ Jude Morgan

The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally.'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge.'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.''Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Had a cold hummus with pita bread, Under a delicious food, yellow or red. Might just have the appetite to cook Urgent dinner by hook or crook.So that's just a humus humor spread.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion.

~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!” cried Mr. Twit, poking around in it with his fork.“It’s a new kind,” Mrs. Twit said, taking a mouthful from her own plate which of course had no worms. “It’s called Squiggly Spaghetti. It’s delicious. Eat it up while it’s nice and hot.

~ Roald Dahl

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

~ Sue Grafton

It's safe to tell us stuff, okay? This means it's not safe to tell them anything.

~ A.s. King

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

~ Kenneth Grahame

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals.

~ S.a. Tawks

If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.

~ V.t. Davy

Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love?

~ Galt Niederhoffer

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

~ Nigel Slater

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of loss and the aloneness, the utter defenselessness that was each man's lot, sealed up in his bee cell from all the others in the world. But the smelling of boiling vegetables and pork reached him from the inside, the aloneness left him for a while. The warm moist smell promised other people lived and were preparing supper.He listened to the pouring and the thunder rumblings that sounded hollow like they were in a rainbarrel, shared the excitement and the coziness of the buzzing insects that had sought refuge on the porch, and now and then he slapped detachedly at the mosquitoes, making a sharp crack in the pouring buzzing silence. The porch sheltered him from all but the splashes of the drops that hit the floor and their spray touched him with a pleasant chill. And he was secure, because someewhere out beyond the wall of water humanity still existed, and was preparing supper.

~ James Jones

I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time.

~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

When you think you can stand no more of the wolf's snuffing under the door and keening softly on cold nights, throw discretion into the laundry bag, put candles on the table, and for your own good if not the pleasure of an admiring audience make one or another of the recipes in this chapter. And buy yourself a bottle of wine, or make a few cocktails, or have a long open-hearted discussion of cheeses with the man on the corner who is an alien but still loyal if bewildered.

~ M.f.k. Fisher

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