Quotes About Dinner

I can't believe you two," Henry said crossly. "I reminded you of this last night." "But we forgot," said the twins, in simultaneous despair. "How could you?" "Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner." "Asparagus is in season," said Francis helpfully.

The dinner itself might well have been planned by the same mind that had devised the décor: black bean soup, crab meat and slivers of crab shell done in cream, roasted crown of lamb with bone tips decently encased in little paper drawers, tiny hard potatoes, green peas ruined by chopped carrots, asparagus instead of salad, and the dessert called, perhaps a shade hysterically, Cherries Jubilee.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

The courtroom was an austere place, a large dark chamber clearly designed for Justice rather than, for instance, for Pleasure. You wouldn't hold a dinner party there – at least, not a successful one.

As we hoped, our kids began to learn Italian. One day Isaac sat down to dinner, looked at the plate of pasta we'd prepared, made a face, and said, "Che schifo!" a vulgar expression meaning "Gross!" We were so proud.

on for the rest of my life." That evening, Virgilio joined us at dinner. I asked him about the clear-cutting that checkerboarded the jungle we had flown over. He was shocked and concerned by what he'd seen. He said we had found the site in the nick of time, before deforestation and

If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let's review the menu. Robbery? Frogery? No, I think not. Rather too vegetarian. It must be murder—red-blooded murder—with trimmings, of course.

Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.

Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: They distract the mind from food! You

Come on, Charles, let's have it." "You mayn't like it," I said. "I met Sophia Leonides out in Cairo. I fell in love with her. I'm going to marry her. I met her tonight. She dined with me." "Dined with you? In London? I wonder just how she managed to do that? The family were asked - oh, quite politely, to stay put." "Quite so. She shinned down a pipe from the bathroom window." The Old Man's lips twitched for a moment into a smile. "She seems," he said, "to be a young lady of some resource.

macaroni au gratin.

Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine.

The air is dry and light and its effect on the mind is similar to that of a glass of Champagne before dinner.

My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.

I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

I've been on teams where you literally don't talk to each other at dinner. Just six guys on their phones.

We don't have phones at the dinner table.

I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.

Once you're dating already, then you go to dinner. But I've never been on like a, 'I'm getting dressed up for a date. Pick you up at 7.'

Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life - who's picking up who and who's cooking dinner.

I am most certainly not rich. But I am a man who is intrinsically lazy. And I'm more than happy to put a piece of cheese on a rice cake and call that dinner.

I was one of those kids who ate everyone's school dinners. They used to call me 'Pig of The Year.'

I would love to go to the Last Supper and become a fly on the wall to hear what was said and see what went on.