Quotes About Dinner
Buen chico. Y yo dije: —Gracias por la cena —porque eso es ser educado.
~ Mark Haddon
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Shepherd's pie'? 'Chili special'? Sounds like leftovers to me. How about swordfish? I like it fine. But my seafood purveyor, when he goes out to dinner, won't eat it. He's seen too many of those 3-foot-long parasitic worms that riddle the fish's flesh.
~ Anthony Bourdain
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Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard have given us a deep and important look at the people, places and cuisine that are reshaping what we want for dinner. Koreatown thrills with flavors that will change your life.
~ Anthony Bourdain
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CHAPTER XLVIII THE DINNER AT THE BUSH
~ Anthony Trollope
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CHAPTER XLII MR. MAINWARING'S LITTLE DINNER
~ Anthony Trollope
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A round dinner-table,' said he, with some heat, 'is the most abominable article of furniture that ever was invented. I hope that Arabin has more taste than to allow such a thing in his house.
~ Anthony Trollope
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Let's have another bottle of 'cham,' said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. 'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
~ Anthony Trollope
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Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
~ Art Buchwald
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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.
~ Art Buchwald
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When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-morrow' said he.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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I expect we'll receive an invitation for dinner from their Highnesses, at second-blue, which will serve as an informal welcome." I took a deep breath. "All right. Until then we're free? Let's walk around," I said. "I'm not tired or hungry, but I still feel stiff from--from sitting inside that coach for so long." I did not want to refer to my ride or the postponed wager. If she noticed my hesitation and quick recovery, she gave no sign.
~ Sherwood Smith
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I disliked having a fork pointed at me and I disliked the sound of the voice never stopping; I wished he would put food on the fork and put it into his mouth and strangle himself.
~ Shirley Jackson
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Sometimes, when it had been a hard day at school and the future looked unusually dark, Miss Matt would permit herself to cry luxuriously for half an hour; afterward she would wash her face, and dress and go out to some nice restaurant for dinner.
~ Shirley Jackson
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During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word.
~ Shirley Jackson
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I don't stay after I set out dinner," Mrs. Dudley went on. "Not after it begins to get dark. I leave before dark comes.
~ Shirley Jackson
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Mrs. Dudley," the doctor said, putting down his fork, "an admirable soufflé.
~ Shirley Jackson
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Perhaps the fire had destroyed everything and we would go back tomorrow and find that the past six years had been burned and they were waiting for us, sitting around the dining-room table waiting for Constance to bring them their dinner.
~ Shirley Jackson
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Because of a cowgirl named Stephanie Becker, I ended up wondering what would kill me first: a charging bull or a man with a rifle, but that was on a cold moonlit night in the mountains, long after we first met. All of it really began earlier at the end of the hockey season when I saw her at an awards dinner for the Kamloops Blazers hockey team. I'll tell you right now, it wasn't the way I wanted to meet a beautiful girl.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
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The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club.
~ Sinclair Lewis
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I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and think Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!
~ Sophie Kinsella
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People were endlessly good, wise, and gentle in the midst of all the hurry, the conferences, the dinner invitations, the smell of disinfectant, the meeting reminders.
~ Riikka Pulkkinen, Totta
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Dinner theater is anti-culture.
~ John Simon
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I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.
~ John Stamos
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If it be contrary to man's nature that he should live like a mere pig, or a tiger, or any form of brute beast, it is equally contrary to his nature not to like a good dinner, and to shrink from a glass of good wine.
~ John Stuart Blackie
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