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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. — John Wanamaker

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table. — Dolly Parton

One dinner. One night. No repeats. — Whitney G.

I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner. — Robert Goulet

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing. — Pietro Aretino

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid. — George Eliot

Ace would be the first to turn the words into a joke, one about how artists fell in love every day before noon and got their hearts broken by dinner. — Kit Rocha

I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies. — Daniel Barenboim

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. — Jules Renard

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners. — Oscar Wilde

I'm not a late-night person. After 10 P.M., I'm falling asleep. If I'm out at that time, I'll be the one falling asleep at dinner. — Blake Mycoskie

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. — Mignon McLaughlin

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. — Oscar Wilde

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it. — Peter Kreeft

During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word. — Shirley Jackson

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner. — Lord Chesterfield

If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not. — Bryant Gumbel

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.' — Alan King

I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day. — Cara Castronuova

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish. — Gail Carriger

"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing." — Charles Dickens

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal. — Myrtle Reed

Burt Reynolds, great sex symbol of the movies, who said, I owe it all to one great part. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

They're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner. — Margery Wilson

Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner. — Jeffrey Zeldman

I clear breakfast at ten o'clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It's ten o'clock. — Shirley Jackson

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. — Laurie Colwin

We don't get montages or grand finales. We just eat dinner and do the dishes, and absolutely no one's going to clap their hands about it. — Kelsey Miller

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her ... I like her. — Simon Cowell

I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner. — Ruth Reichl

I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner. — Leah Busque

No more pharmaceuticals. No more certainty of surviving a scratch on one's hand, a cut on a finger while chopping vegetables for dinner, a dog bite. — Emily St. John Mandel

I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us. — James Patterson

The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner. — Shirley Maclaine

I took my girl to dinner, and she laughed so hard at one of my jokes that she dropped her tray. — Jack Benny

How does someone find out between lunch and dinner one day that they aren't who they thought they were? — Jason F. Wright

As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table. — Steven Pinker

We sat down and I felt as if we were one of those rich married couples, more separated than united by their dinner table.
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Are you guys really arguing over where to eat dinner?"
"It's one of the more savage tools in the diplomatic arsenal. — Howard Tayler

He didn't ask - of course he didn't ask - but he did show up at the captain's quarters one evening after dinner looking sheepish. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

I think the last dinner was preferable to this one. At least Raven was there. And Lucien. — Amy Ewing

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night ... — Erma Bombeck

Is that why you're here?" Ben blurted "To glean one of us?" Scythe Faraday offered an unreadable smile. "I'm here for dinner. — Neal Shusterman

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One. — J. Courtney Sullivan

One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day. — Edouard De Pomiane

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. — W. Somerset Maugham

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. — Helen Hunt

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.' — Anne Wojcicki

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. — Richard Whately

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula. — Nora Roberts

One time she threw a dinner plate at his head and called him retarded. Then he held her down in the shower, calling her a hot-head. — Stylo Fantome

A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner. — Seth Godin

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner. — Georgette Heyer

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation". — Peter Heather

No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor. — Charles M. Schulz

One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress. — Lily Donaldson