Quotes About Dining

Mrs Scorrier ought to sit at the bottom of the table,' said Aubrey positively. 'You mean the foot of the table: opposite to the head, you understand,' said Mrs Scorrier instructively. 'Yes, of course,' replied Aubrey, looking surprised. 'Did I say bottom? I wonder what made me do that?

But not even Mrs Underhill's evident admiration reconciled him to the prospect of dining in her house. He described her as a vulgar mushroom, and wondered that his cousins should not have kept her at a proper distance.

for one couldn't expect her to dine in the housekeeper's

To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?'

Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo.

In fiction, characters could punch their bosses and get away with it. In real life, you lost your job, and then you were dining on Cup-a-Soup seven nights a week instead of four.

But please eat at the table and use a coaster.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.

I don't´t like doing dishes. I like eating with my hands and off napkins.

historical. Outside, waiting to be seated: Illness, Boredom, Sorrow. Loneliness already seated, dining with a group.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

The only extra plates ever permitted are the bread and butter plates which are put on at breakfast and lunch and supper above and to the left of the forks, but never at dinner.

I never realized how much of the pleasure of dining out is watching people, otherwise it feels like ordering in with better utensils.

There is great food in Vegas.

A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.

Each bite that you see the other person take reinforces your liking. Or not: it is hard to sit calmly by and carry on eating if you share a table with someone who is grumbling that peas are 'gross' and pinging them at you with a knife.

Avoid 'distracting' meals such as TV dinners and computer lunches. replace the biscuit jar with a fruit bowl. Repackage food into smaller containers. Order half-size portions in restaurants. Replace short wide glasses with tall narrow ones. And get smaller plates.

These sprouts are uneatable,' complained Lord Pallot. 'Why are sprouts always uneatable? Why do they plant them, pick them, cook them, and serve them if they are going to be uneatable? What, in other words, is the point of Brussels sprouts?

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.