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Dinner Quotes - Page 7

I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table - my father demanded it - and you had to be able to debate in a confident and clear way.

"Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.

"Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags". Book by Stuart B. McIver, 1994.

Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1889). “The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: With Illustrations by the Author, and with Introductory Notes Setting Forth the History of the Several Works in Twenty-two Volumes”

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.199, Jazzybee Verlag

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Leviathan”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins