dinner

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

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

After dinner to the Duke's house, and there sawTwelfth Night acted well, though it be but a silly play.

—Pepys, Samuel

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

—Maugham,W(illiam) Somerset

The best number fora dinner party istwoömyself and a damn good head waiter.

—Gulbenkian, Nubar Sarkis

   Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

—Piercy, Marge

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each canbecomeaccomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing todayand another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening or criticize after dinner, just as I desire, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

—Johnson, Claudia AltaTaylor known as Lady Bird

   Dinner in the diner nothing could be finer than to have your ham'n eggs in Carolina.

—Gordon, Mack

Better is little with the fear of the L than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Dinner parties are for eating, not mating.

—Fenwick, Millicent Hammond

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any otheranimals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and thescience of metaphysics.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

—Lear, Edward

It isnot fromthebenevolence ofthebutcher, thebrewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

—Smith, Adam

Their civilization is based on the most forthrightly materialistic value system in the history of mankind. If they see pie in the sky, they immediately start figuring out how to get it down onto the dinner table.

—Bonavia, David

'How did you think I managed at dinner,Clarence?' 'Capitally!' 'I had a knife and two forks left at the end,'she said regretfully.

—Ridge,W(illiam) Pett

As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the tother say, 'Where sall we gang and dine to-day?' 'In behint yon auld fail dye, I wot there lies a new-slain knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. 'His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet.'

—Ballads

A man should have dinner with his friends, and the commanding general has no friends.

—LeMay, Curtis Emerson

We were to do more business after dinner, but after dinner is after dinneröan old saying and a true,'much drinking, little thinking'.

—Swift,Jonathan

   Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

I do wish we could chat longer but I'm having an old friend for dinner.

—Tally,Ted

Murder is always a mistake† One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

The Kamikaze Ground Staff Re-union Dinner.

—Parker, Stewart

   A revolution is not a dinner party.

—Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

—Ransom,John Crowe

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours'march to dinneröand then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.

—Hazlitt,William

  I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.

—Hart, Lorenz

Thackeray settled like a meat-fly on whatever one had got for dinner, and made one sick of it.

—Ruskin,John