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• The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

  Winston Churchill

  Broken, House, Trying

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• 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

  Art, Wine, Space

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• I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

  Rufus Sewell

  Holiday, Style, Littles

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

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• Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Hands, Doubt

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• But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

  Nick Cave

  Darling, Cannibal, Sooner Or Later

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• There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.

  Virginia Woolf

  Adventure, Glasses, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.693, Wordsworth Editions

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• Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Night, Thinking, Play

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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• To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Glasses, Hands

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass”, p.100, Oberon Books

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• Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Couple, Mean, Dark

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• To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Long, People, Responsible

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.16, Vintage

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• Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

  Isabella Beeton

  Leadership, Civilization, Progress

  Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.363, Oxford University Press

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• He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Work, Night

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.594, Wordsworth Editions

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• I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Wine, Waiting, Sound

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• A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Winter, Two

  1729 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.

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• Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

  Horace

  Wine, Dry Up, Smell

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• When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wine, Two, Giving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

  Henry James

  Food, Dining Alone, Culture

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• Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pride, Vanity, Contempt

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.83, The Way to Wealth

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• I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Writing, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.138, Rowman & Littlefield

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• One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.

  Joseph Henshaw

  Life, Bed, Doe

  "Horæ Subcessivæ" by Joseph Henshaw, p. 80, 1631.

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• Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.

  Roy Andries De Groot

  Food, Dine In, Perfect

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• For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Meals, Loved Ones, Really Amazing

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• To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with. I am proud to be who I am as a Dine' (Navajo) and Nahilii (African American) woman. Hozho', , & blessings

  Radmilla Cody

  Beautiful, Blessing, Who I Am

  FaceBook post by Radmilla Cody from Feb 15, 2013

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