Quotes About Entertaining

If you can't handle providing all the courses for your dinner party, you can't handle the hosting duties of a dinner party.

value simplicity in all things, never serve any aperitif but Champagne. Hard liguor requires a bar, special paraphernalia, and a variety of glasses, as well as messy shaking or stirring. More important, it numbs more than it tickles the taste buds. When you've spent time and money preparing delicious food for your guests, the last thing you want is to render them unable to taste it. That will eliminate one of the most important topics of conversation!~

Entertaining is an act of friendship and cooking is an act of love.

Oh, this has got to be something humorus.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, men earned most of the income for the family, while women, as "traditional housewives," were responsible for providing services to family members and converting money into status.54 This was seen most clearly in the value placed on neatness, cleanliness, decorations, and entertaining as lavishly as budgets would allow.

I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

The defeated reactionary always retains the option of entertaining himself with the victor's simplistic ideas.

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.

And, of course, the grand failures are as entertaining as the great successes.

In the entertaining story in 1 Kings 18: 20–40, the prophet Elijah* teases and mocks the priests of the Canaanite god Baal when their god does not show up for a divine duel with Yahweh. At one point Elijah even suggests that perhaps Baal needed to use the restroom, which is to say he isn't a god at all. I'm not kidding. He has wandered away in verse 27 is a euphemism for going potty.