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Waiter Quotes

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

"Ask an Expert: 'Shark Tank' judge on being an entrepreneur". Interview with Steve Strauss, www.usatoday.com. February 24, 2012.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

"Austin Butler, ‘Carrie Diaries’ Star: ‘I Was Rebellious And A Mess Of A Person’" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

"Dumb Luck". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 26, 2012.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.17, Lulu.com

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

Quoted in Lore and Maurice Cowan, The Wit of Women (1969)

Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT.

Richard Kadrey (2012). “Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, Book 2)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.

"Roundtable With Seven Stars Who Had an Emmy-Worthy Year". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. June 6, 2012.

...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.

Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”