Dinner Quotes - Page 6

• This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Men, Enough

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 31 July 1763)

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• I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Doors, Buying, Yeah

  "A Guided Tour of Evan Rachel Wood: A Woman We Love" by Julian Sanction, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2011.

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• I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner.

  Marilyn Manson

  Choices, Wake Up, Breakfast

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 3, 2015.

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• Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.311

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• My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dream, Sweet, Guy

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• I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

  Bear Bryant

  New York, Thinking, Rays

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• You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  Larry Flynt

  Niece, Sheep, Majority Rule

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• Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Kids, Mcdonalds, Toys

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• I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

  Brad Paisley

  Home, Thinking, Tricks

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

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• Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Chinese

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  Ward McAllister

  Dinner Guests, House Guests, Sacred

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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• There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

  Winston Churchill

  Girl, Wall, Humorous

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

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• A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Art, Gambling

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

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• When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

  Gracie Allen

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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• If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner,
  And take to light claret instead of pale ale;
  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,
  And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Light, Wish, Looks

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186

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• Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Thinking, Smell

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• I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

  Holly Valance

  Girlfriend, People, Sitting Down

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• For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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• At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

  George Carlin

  Party, Cooking Dinner, Bathroom

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

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• Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Food, Cooking

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• A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

  Hugh Sidey

  Athlete, White, House

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• If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

  Moby

  Nice, Writing, Records

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• The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

  Herbert Hoover

  Presidential, Progress, Garage

  Campaign speech, New York, N.Y., 22 Oct. 1928.

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• We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Relationship, Marriage

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• The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie]. We were having dinner in LA and she asked me what I wanted to do next and I said, "I want to do a horror movie." And she goes, "What's it going to be about?" And I said, "A lot of blood and high heels."

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  High Heels, Blood, Want

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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