Dinner Quotes - Page 5

After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

A dinner lubricates business.

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!

Givers of great dinners know few enemies.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

When my girlfriend cooks dinner, I'm happy to do the dishes. Because I make her wash dishes when I take her to a restaurant.

I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.

I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner.

Sonny Von Bulow, who said to her husband Claus on their honeymoon, Stop needling me. Never got a dinner!

The captain of the Titanic, who said to room service, Who sent for all this ice? Never got a dinner!

Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.

For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable.

Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!

Henry Ford, who despite his immense wealth never owned a Cadillac. Never got a dinner!

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