Dining Alone Quotes

• In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Thinking, Tables

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

  Henry James

  Food, Culture, Dine

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• Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

  Charles Lamb

  Dinner, Eating, Pleasure

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1855). “The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.185

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• He who eats alone chokes alone.

  H. L. Mencken

  Choke, Arabian

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• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humor, Schizophrenia

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

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• Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Inspirational, Food, Animal

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• . . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sex, Home, Two

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.773, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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