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Quotes About Dining

Cette première pièce exhale une odeur sans nom dans la langue, et qu'il faudrait appeler l'odeur de pension. Elle sent le renfermé, le moisi, le rance; elle donne froid, elle est humide au nez, elle pénètre les vêtements; elle a le goût d'une salle où l'on a dîné; elle pue le service, l'office, l'hospice. Peut-être
~ Honore de Balzac
Contrary to popular belief, there was no "captain's table" where E. J. Smith would entertain a favored selection of passengers each night. Smith normally took his meals at a table for six in the dining saloon or in his cabin, served by his valet or "tiger" as the captain's attendant was known.
~ Hugh Brewster
Luego está la ración. España es el único sitio del universo, si no me equivoco, donde la gente come antes de irse a casa a comer. Me parece genial.
~ Unknown
Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [ Love's Last Shift ]
~ Colley Cibber
She warned him, kindly enough, about manners when he forgot the simple ceremonies of eating which everyone knew, such as standing up to unfold the napkin or putting the scraps into the solvent tray and the silverware into the transfer.
~ Cordwainer Smith
APrimo First course, usually a substantial pasta, rice or zuppa (soup) dish. ASecondo Second course, often carne (meat) or pesce (fish). AContorno Side dish, usually verdura (vegetable). ADolce Dessert; including torta (cake). AFrutta Fruit; usually the epilogue to a meal. ANostra produzione Made in-house. ASurgelato Frozen; usually used to denote fish or seafood not freshly caught.
~ Unknown
I love roast dinners, simple avocado salads, spicy Vietnamese papaya salad, all fish and seafood, a good steak.
~ Sara Cox
In big fourteenth-century houses the kitchen was sometimes in a separate building, to lessen the risk of fire. Otherwise it might be next to the main dining hall, on the first floor. Its windows were unlikely to be glazed. The wooden shutters and louvres kept the worst of the winter weather out and let out some of the smoke, but hardly helped with the light level. When daylight faded, candlelight and firelight had to suffice.
~ Unknown
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
~ Lord Byron
She pressed the rest of her clothes into my hands and said, Don't do anything weird with them. I was going to shellac them into a dining set and serve a four-course meal in them, I said, but if you're gonna get all squeamish about it, I guess I'll just hold them for you.
~ Jim Butcher
Go out to a new restaurant, do something nice for each other and make sure your time together is just about the two of you.
~ Unknown
one is always in respectable company among rather well-to-do bourgeois, one does not notice this so much perhaps, but if one has dined for years on la vache enragée, as I have, one cannot deny that great misery is a fact that weights the scale.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Cracker Barrel's dining room bustled with activity. Joan had to raise her voice to be heard by Eve, who sat at the
~ Unknown
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.
~ Kanye West
Are you going to the dining hall? Glain smiled very briefly. It was a rare enough event, and it made her almost human. Almost pretty. Are you asking to escort me, like some girl you're romancing? Jess. Don't waste your time. I'm extremely unavailable.... Remind me never to be polite to you again, he said, and she laughed this time, came around, and draped a comrade's arm around his shoulders. Of course I will.
~ Rachel Caine
My friends and I will go out for dinner and drinks, but I don't really go dancing or anything like that.
~ Claudia Kim
The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.
~ Martin Bashir
Oh, I'd never put my elbows on the table.
~ Mary Berry
I love to cook. I love to entertain.
~ Antoni Porowski
I'm a food environmentalist. I'm about the food and the ambiance.
~ Jonathan Cheban
HELENA. Well. Now we can finally eat. Everybody marches into the dining room singing the traditional song 'Helan Går'.
~ Ingmar Bergman
It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
~ Danica McKellar
People have started consuming very privatised content. Initially, it used to be community viewing at the cinema, where you look forward to ice cream in the interval and then on to your dressing and dining rooms. Today, it's gotten so privatised that you're watching things on your mobile phone. That is a massive amount of change.
~ Vikrant Massey