Dinner Quotes

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Made, Talking, Eating

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage, Sometimes, Grace

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'
Thomas Friedman

Parents, Job, Tell

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
Elsa Maxwell

Weird, Goodness, Serve

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
Diana Vreeland

Food, Poor, Died

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

Time, Show, Parties

I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.
Katy Perry

Try, Big, Everyone

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
Alec Baldwin

Sex, Remember, Both

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
Boris Johnson

Play, Between, Rest

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.
Scott Adams

Women, Important, Why

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.
Sharon Stone

Respect, Give, Gentleman

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
Michael J. Fox

Good, Together, Night

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Good, Despair, Promise

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
Judith Viorst

Hope, Dead, Either

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
Bobby Flay

Great, Nice, End

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Lunch, Boy, Wake

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
David Byrne

Time, Food, Eat

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
Maria Sharapova

Person, Annoying, Taking

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
Jerry Saltz

Money, Art, Important

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
William Shatner

Family, Good, Emotional

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.
Angie Stone

Good, Home, Woman

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Joan Didion

Life, Down, Changes

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.
Al Lewis

Wait, Kids, Friday

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel Castro

Vote, Town, Airport

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.
Curtis Stone

Big, Once, Monday

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
Barbara Bush

Political, Try, State

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.
Hugh Jackman

Parents, Else, Everyone

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.
John Cleese

Family, Christmas, Else

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
Bob Ehrlich

Family, Important, Table

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