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“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
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“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
― The Diary of Samuel Pepys
― The Diary of Samuel Pepys
“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”
― The Wind in the Willows
― The Wind in the Willows
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.”
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“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.”
― A Is for Alibi
― A Is for Alibi
“She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.”
― Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
― Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“Tori joined us for dinner --in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it.”
― The Summoning
― The Summoning
“If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.”
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“Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?”
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“One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“This table is a pigeon trap. A dozen different forks and knives and spoons. Four different goblets. All of them just waiting to be knocked over or misapplied and mishandled. It’s a wonder anyone is ever tempted to eat.”
― She Walks in Beauty
― She Walks in Beauty
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs.
"One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".”
― High-Rise
"One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".”
― High-Rise
“If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.”
― Little Pea
― Little Pea
“One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.”
― At Home: A Short History of Private Life
― At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally.
'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge.
'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.'
'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.”
― Alice on the Outside
'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge.
'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.'
'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.”
― Alice on the Outside
“Poppy: What makes you think I'm having dinner with you?
Jake: Because you can't sit in your room and eat ice cream and chips two nights in a row. You'll get scurvy. You need vitamin C.”
― Her Secret Fling
Jake: Because you can't sit in your room and eat ice cream and chips two nights in a row. You'll get scurvy. You need vitamin C.”
― Her Secret Fling
“...to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...”
― German Ideology
― German Ideology
“That evening after dinner, I picked lemons from the tree in the backyard, the fruits golden bulbs under the rising moon.”
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you."
[Love's Last Shift]”
― The Plays of Colley Cibber
[Love's Last Shift]”
― The Plays of Colley Cibber
“They served "Good Food" but only a G, an O and a D were lit up. Personally, I doubted God dined there. Unless God was keen on samonella poisoning and rat droppings in the hamburgers. But then again, what did I know?”
― Torn
― Torn
“7:15 Montpelier - excellent dinner. Would have been perfect if only I'd had a handgun for the other guests: 'Of course communism was always bound to fail.”
― Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
― Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
“Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state of one's larder was hardly the way to respond to an invitation to dinner.”
― Excellent Women
― Excellent Women
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