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Quotes About Supper

I thought dreamily of that supper when he had come upon me so stealthily and stared at me with such innocent and inquisitive eyes.
~ Anne Rice
I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important!
~ John Flanagan
Darnley was the first to appear. He entered the supper room and spoke to Mary.
~ John Guy
Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly," said Bunny. "That's a date.
~ Elizabeth Strout
We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly." said Bunny. "That's a date.
~ Elizabeth Strout
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.
~ Samuel Johnson
Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.
~ Gladys Taber
Since supper was three kinds of casserole with two kinds of fruit salad, with cake and pie for dessert, I gathered that my flock, who lambaste life's problems with food items of just this kind, had heard an alarm. There was even a bean salad, which to me looked distinctly Presbyterian, so anxiety had overspilled its denominational vessel. You'd have thought I'd died. We saved it for lunch.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The police asked us whether we wanted counselling. We said we'd prefer a hot supper.
~ Mark Haddon
So this evening has gone about as hideously as it possibly could. There's only one solution, which is to keep drinking wine until my nerves have been numbed or I pass out. Whichever comes first. Supper
~ Sophie Kinsella
If you'll excuse me, I will retire and have a light supper in my chamber," Mia said. "The brandy went to my head and besides, I have a letter to write." "Of course," Vander said, thinking perhaps they could eat together in his bedchamber. It would be a prelude to eating in bed.
~ Eloisa James
Afterwards they went down the garden together to pick peas for supper, and to dream their dreams in the summer dusk.
~ Barbara Comyns
Your cat may never have to hunt farther than the kitchen counter for its supper nor face a predator more fierce than the vacuum cleaner.
~ Barbara L. Diamond
The three of us sat out on the porch as the stars were beginning to twinkle up in the Carolina sky and ate blackberry cobbler before supper.
~ Barbara O'Connor
Mrs. Wardell wagged her finger and stood up to go. 'But you're looking very nice in your blue velvet,' she said. 'I must rush off now. Old Dr. Fremantle and his wife are coming to supper. So depressing.' She sighed. 'Reminiscences of Oxford in the eighties, with a few daring little academic jokes. And poor Olive's so dreary.
~ Barbara Pym
found little to say beyond the merest commonplace throughout supper, but this silence passed unnoticed in the spate of Lord Bridlington's
~ Georgette Heyer
Growing up we were very working-class; you had dinner at 12, then tea at 4:30. If you got supper, you were doing bloody well.
~ Keith Allen
And the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, "These are the true words of God." Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God." (Rev. 19:9–10)
~ Scotty Smith
A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
~ Diogenes Laertius
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by-and-by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him; because I don't take no stock in dead people.
~ Mark Twain
After supper she got out her book and learned me about
~ Mark Twain
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
~ Mark Twain
I am sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter! 'One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time.' But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper.
~ Beatrix Potter
I have never regarded any theater as much more than the conclusion to a dinner or the prelude to a supper.
~ beerbohm max ii