Dinner Table Quotes

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. — Samuel Johnson

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead. — Mira Grant

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though. — Vanessa Kerry

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

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. — Seth Gordon

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table. — Diana Vreeland

Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table. — Santosh Kalwar

I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead. — Phyllis Diller

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. — Adrienne Rich

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table. — Janet Flanner

I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken. — Paula Deen

Be nice to his family. Pretend not to notice the way their house smells. Pretend to like their food. Mimic their barbaric customs at the dinner table. — Laura Yes Yes

Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise. — Lyle Lovett

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. — Renee Fleming

No one lets dead poets lie in peace. We are like old meat on a crowded dinner table. — Steven Erikson

People should have fun with wine. A bottle should sit on your dinner table like all of the other condiments. — Andre Hueston Mack

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. — Bob Ehrlich

My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that. — Nick Harkaway

All great change in America begins at the dinner table. — Ronald Reagan

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. — Hugh Jackman

Star salt (the stars' reflection in a river) Sun cradle (the sea) Lemon kiss (everyone knew exactly what this meant!) Family anchor (the dinner table) — Nina George

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress. — Gelett Burgess

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film. — John Orloff

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics. — Columba Bush

Right now it's just me and my impatience having a silent war at the dinner table. — Colleen Hoover

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

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first. — Ryan Kwanten

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else. — Isla Fisher

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life. — A.C. Grayling

I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table. — Cara Buono

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business. — Jared Kushner

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read. — Nicole Krauss

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny. — Lorrie Moore

How nice would that be today if when a job was lost, a Man of God sat at the dinner table and encouraged you? — Mitch Albom

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table. — Bo Sanchez

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. — Angela Carter

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. — Marilyn Vos Savant

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. — Claire Danes

If Colt called and said he and Feb were coming in for dinner, Stavros would build a table for them with his bare hands if he had to. — Kristen Ashley

If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh. — Tom Douglas

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

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics. — Dambisa Moyo

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table. — Julia Roberts

Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table. — Gail Carriger

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table. — Dalai Lama

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

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner. — Christopher Morley

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat. — Bear Grylls

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down. — Madeleine L'Engle

I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning. — Christopher Buckley

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin. — Mason Cooley

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. — Oscar Wilde

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression. — Don DeLillo

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day. — Isabel Gillies

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing. — Jim Carrey

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. — Iggy Azalea

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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I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food. — Michael Pollan

Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas. — Lilith Saintcrow