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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
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
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
Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.
— Peter Kreeft
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
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
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.-pg 46 — Albert Sanchez Pinol
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
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
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
