Dinner Quotes

• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Food

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Son, Wife, Sids

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• Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  White, Rays, Wonder

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• I can seriously spend five hours making one dinner.

  Jessica Alba

  Hours, Five, I Can

  "Hollywood Honey". www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Light, Order

  "The Sexiest Thing You Can Do on a Date". Interview with Liz Plosser, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2013.

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• If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?

  George Carlin

  Two, Lunch, Wonder

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• 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

  Party, Use, Firsts

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, 2011.

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• I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Party, People, Max

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.

  Bill Parcells

  Want, Groceries, Cooks

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• If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

  Andy Rooney

  Restaurants, Let Me, Please

  "Andy Rooney Signs Off '60 Minutes' for Last Time: 'This Is a Moment I Have Dreaded'" by Kimberly Nordyke, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 02, 2011.

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• A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

  Laurie David

  Yummy, Conversation, Good Conversation

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

  Wilhelm II

  Lunch, Paris

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• I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, Art, Museums

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• The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

  Tucker Max

  Running, Easter, Children

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny, Life, Sweet

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “My Best Short Stories (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

  Kris Carr

  Kitchen, Magic, Happens

  "My Crazy Sexy Meal Plan" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2013.

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• The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

  Julia Child

  Happy Times, Together, Sacred

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• [Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

  Julia Roberts

  Motherhood, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Kings, Food

  "Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income". Book by Brian Tracy, May 2, 2006.

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• Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Lasts, Hours, Pleasure

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• Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Beer, Years, Oysters

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• This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets - this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience.

  Shauna Niequist

  Dream, Prayer, Adventure

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• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

  Ronald Reagan

  Change, America, Presidential

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Talking, Cooking

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• The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

  Judith Martin

  Food, Teaching, Accomplishment

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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