After Dinner Speech Quotes

#1. But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

Evelyn Waugh

#2. The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.

Herman Herst Jr.

#3. Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

Charles Webster Hawthorne

#4. There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

Charles Dudley Warner

#5. There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Winston Churchill

#6. No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

Kin Hubbard

#7. The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

Michael Lewis

#8. Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.

Roland Barthes

#9. True emotional healing lies somewhere between intentional choices and divine intervention, a junction of surrender, faith, trust, and action.

Jo Ann Fore

#10. For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart

Audrey Hepburn

#11. I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

Brittany Maynard

#12. People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

Neil Kinnock

#13. Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

Jeff Bezos

#14. One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.

Neil Genzlinger

#15. I kind of became a gym rat. The more results I saw, the more dedicated I became. It is such a great feeling to see your hard work pay off. I mean, if I'm gonna skip the In-N-Out burgers, there better be light at the end of the tunnel!

Jonathan Lipnicki

#16. Making choices for the feelings they bring us & not what others think means we can find fulfilment and achievement from fulfilling our goals.
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Roland Bush-Cavell And Carolann Frankie

#17. This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and crankier. Which explains why he announced he no longer supports President Obama.

Jimmy Fallon

#18. Land of lost gods and godlike men.

Lord Byron

#19. My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.

Chelsea Clinton

#20. And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.

William Napier

#21. I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.

Gary Snyder

#22. As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their "sea legs" on, and shiver their timbers on all possible occasions, so I turned military at once, called my dinner my rations, saluted all new comers, and ordered a dress parade that very afternoon.

Louisa May Alcott