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Dinner Guests Quotes

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

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”

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

Fran Lebowitz
Food, Dinner Guests, Hot
Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.125, Vintage

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

Prabal Gurung
Mean, Dinner Guests, Nervous
"Prabal Gurung on His Love Affair with Women, SS13 Campaign, and Target Collection". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. January 31, 2013.

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

Calvin Trillin
Girl, Mother, Dinner Guests
Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Barbara Walters
Party, Nbc, Dinner Guests

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

Mason Cooley
Elderly, Dinner Guests, May

When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.

Laura Kipnis
Dinner Guests, Backyards, Culture
Laura Kipnis (2009). “Against Love: A Polemic”, p.24, Vintage

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