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Quotes About Conviviality

Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of general embarrassment about himself in which he floated with log-like calm.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I rarely drink, but when I do, I prefer Tequila.
~ Valentin Chmerkovskiy
Go to the devil with your Latin. Let us drink, my dear d'Artagnan, MORBLEU! Let us drink while the wine is fresh! Let
~ Alexandre Dumas
Be philosophers, like me, gentlemen: come around the table and let us drink.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
~ Anonymous
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
~ Clifton Fadiman
I enjoy tequila, which has a strange effect on people and makes parties more fun than warm white wine.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
It's hard to reconcile this August with the other one. and to be honest I don't try very hard. I've seen flashes of this August before-This brightness, this conviviality, this generosity of spirit-but I know what he's capable of, and I won't forget it. The others can believe what they like, but I don't believe for a second that this is the real August and the other an aberration And yet I can see how they might be fooled-
~ Sara Gruen
It is not the quantity of the meat but the cheerfulness of the guests which makes the feast.
~ Edward Hyde
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends.Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
~ Aristophanes
We live life in restaurants, its the center of social life, where we celebrate with family and friends, make new friends, travel without traveling, and of course, eat.
~ Philip Rosenthal
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
~ Samuel Johnson
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
~ Epicurus
When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the pride he took in being able to pay for such a dinner, the convergence of his life as a writer and his life as an oenophile, the conviviality that grew as the night continued and everyone had a little too much to drink but not enough to impair the quality of the conversation, some of which, I feel sure, was about the wines themselves.
~ Anne Fadiman
What a life, without wine!
~ Michael Broadbent
It is the attendance at a great meal, with one too many courses and two too many glasses of wine, that makes civilization spin, romance bloom and friendship last.
~ John Mariani
if you want to know what I've learned in my extended time on Earth it is this: beer is good.
~ Gene Doucette
parlour on the left being reserved for the more select society in which Squire Cass frequently enjoyed the double pleasure of conviviality and condescension.
~ George Eliot
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
~ Samuel Johnson
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
~ Samuel Pepys
ninguna locura, no se disforzaba. Se tomaba sus copas y nada más.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
I like hanging out with people.
~ Isaiah Mustafa
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
~ Jack Nicholson