Dine Quotes

• It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Selfish, Ambition

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.307, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

  Naomi Klein

  Powerful, Nihilism, Delicacy

  "It's greed, not ideology, that rules the White House" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2003.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Breakup, Promise

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, Judging, May

  The Rape of the Lock canto 3, l. 21 (1714)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

  Beverly Sills

  Dine In, Caviar, Might

  "Caviar for Beverly Sills" by Susan Heller Anderson and Maurice Carroll, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1984.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, May

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.83

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wine, Water, Wife

  Flying Inn (1914) ch. 5 "Wine and Water"

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Energy, Body, Earth

  13 Copy quote

• It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

  Alison Croggon

  Food, Clothes, Honor

  4 Copy quote

• The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

  Charles Babbage

  Wine, Men, Giving

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.31, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

  Isabella Beeton

  Food, Cooking, May

  Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.366, Oxford University Press

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Earthquakes, Events, Rubbish

  Quoted in Blanchard Jerrold The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold (1859), ch.14.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

  Plutarch

  Eating, Knows

  7 Copy quote

• Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?

  Peter Frampton

  Morning, Wine, Glasses

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The King of Abyssinia always dines alone.

  Ernest Crawley

  Kings

  Ernest Crawley (1902). “The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

  Moliere

  Eating, Genuine

  "Amphitryon" by Molière, III. 5, 1690.

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.

  Oliver Evans

  Running, Morning, New York

  11 Copy quote

• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

  9 Copy quote

• Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Self Esteem, Snacks, Childhood

  Song: Vampires, Mummies And The Holy Ghost, Album: Fruitcakes, 1994

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dine on little, and sup on less.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Littles, Prudence

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.26

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

  Martial

  Giving, Wish, Three

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

  Diogenes

  Kings, Please, Philip

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch, circa 100 AD.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Team, School

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Flower, Giving, Dresses

  4 Copy quote

• The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

  David Coverdale

  Successful, Knives, Criticism

  4 Copy quote