Dinner Parties Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Men that can have communication in nothing else can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish writer
He showed me his bill of fare to tempt me to dine with him; said I, I value not your bill of fare, give me your bill of company.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist
Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat twenty percent more than they otherwise would.
Ed (E. W) Howe (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist
A dinner lubricates business.
Lord Stowell (William Scott) (1745-1836)
English lawyer Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman
The best number for a dinner party is two—myself and a dam’ good head waiter.
NubarGulbenkian (1897-1972) oil millionaire
The object of a dinner is not to eat and drink, but to join in merrymaking and make a lot of noise. For that reason, he who drinks half drinks best.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976) Chinese writer
It isn’t so much what’s on the table that matters as what’s on the chairs.
William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) English librettist
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
James M. Barrie (1860-1937) British playwright
It you want to shine as a diner-out, the best way is to know something which others do not know, and not to know many things which everybody knows. This takes much less reading, and . . . makes you a really good listener.
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) English poet
Don’t talk about yourself, it will be done when you leave.
Addison Mizner (1872-1933) American architect, writer
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) Anglo-American film director
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace (68-8 BC) Latin poet
When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.
William Plomer (1903-1973) British writer
This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
When at length they rose to go to bed, it struck each and as he followed his neighbour upstairs that the one before him walked very crookedly.
R. S. Surtees (1803-1864) English novelist
Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest things in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg (1887-1938) American critic
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost (1875-1963) American poet
A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American journalist
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American president
A man-of-war is the best ambassador.
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) Lord Protector of England
If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
Sir Harold, (later Lord) Caccia (b. 1905) while British ambassador at Washington
A diplomat these days is nothing but a headwaiter who’s allowed to sit down occasionally.
Peter Ustinov (b. 1921) British author, wit
I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats; I speak the truth and they never believe me.
Camillo di Cavour (1810-1861) Italian statesman
Diplomacy: lying in state.
Oliver Herford (1863-1935) American poet, illustrator
Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
