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Quotes About Dining

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
~ Calvin Trillin
If you're not clipping coupons before going to the grocery store, you're overspending. If you're ordering in or going out to dinner because you don't feel like cooking, you're overspending. If you're not tracking where your money is going, you're very likely overspending.
~ Jean Chatzky
La analogía que yo uso es, si sales a cenar fuera, te llevará un par de horas.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Once a man next to me found the handle of a radiator in his mashed potato; he said nothing, merely moving it to the side of his plate after sucking the mashed potato off it first. Nobody else said anything either. If the truth was known several of us were probably jealous.
~ Tom Baker
I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.
~ Tom Colicchio
I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.
~ Louis Tomlinson
Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.
~ Preston Sturges
The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
~ Yolanda Adams
To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
~ Oscar Wilde
Well, I can't help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe. You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you? He shook his head. To night she is Imogen, he answered, and tomorrow night she will be Juliet. When is she Sibyl Vane? Never. I congratulate you.
~ Oscar Wilde
I hate people who are not serious about meals.  It is so shallow of them.
~ Oscar Wilde
But then, at meals, my attention is pretty well riveted on the foodstuffs.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
What are you giving us? Cold consomme, a cutlet, and a savoury, sir. With lemon-squash, iced. Well, I don't see how that can hurt him. Don't go getting carried away by the excitement of the thing and start bringing in coffee.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I ate cheese gravely.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The only bad parts of it were cooking for one and eating alone.
~ Pat Frank
Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.
~ Roger Moore
You never see a French person eating alone.
~ Pierre Dukan
He who eats alone chokes alone.
~ H. L. Mencken
Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!
~ Charles Lamb
How can you expect four women to dine together alone every day, and not quarrel?
~ Wilkie Collins
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
~ Chinese proverb
This is so cool: Ceepak's going to tin the entire dining room. Ladies? Gentlemen? May I have your attention please? I am Officer John Ceepak of the Sea Haven Police Department...Because of an ongoing police investigation, your waitress will be temporarily unavailable to serve you. If you require anything, kindly wait until Ms. Lapczyinski returns to the floor in approximately five minutes. Thank you and enjoy the rest of your dinners.
~ Chris Grabenstein
Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.
~ Helena Rubinstein
My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat.
~ Henny Youngman