Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
Spike Lee

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

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
Rachel Corrie

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?
Kristin Davis

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
Thomas Friedman

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
Frank Muir

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
Gerald R. Ford

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Angela Carter

The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter.
Nubar Gulbenkian

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
Vanessa Kerry

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
Margaret Halsey

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
Elia Kazan

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
Christopher Plummer

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
Simon Hoggart

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Anne Tyler

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
Francis Quarles

The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.
Elle Macpherson

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
Theophrastus