Dine In Quotes

#1. [Maisie]: ... going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -

Jacqueline Winspear

#2. My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'

Jesse McCartney

#3. Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

Maxwell Bodenheim

#4. Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.

Roy Andries De Groot

#5. For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.

James A. Michener

#6. But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin ...

Katherine Mansfield

#7. Spartans... tonight we dine in Hell!

Frank Miller

#8. It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence ...

Frances Trollope

#9. It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

Alison Croggon

#10. To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

Lewis Carroll

#11. Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts ... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#12. The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

Honore De Balzac

#13. When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.

T.F. Hodge

#14. There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
and the deader the corpse the better.

S. S. Van Dine

#15. These gentlemen, although of the highest nobility,' thought Julien, 'are not in the least boring like the people who come to dine with M. de La Mole; and I can see why,' he added a moment later,'they are not ashamed to be indecent.

Stendhal

#16. I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#17. For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Jim Dine

#18. Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

William Hazlitt

#19. All the different ways of talking English I throw together like a salad and dine greedily in my mongrel tongue.

Alice Randall

#20. If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

Fernand Point

#21. We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.

Richard S. Ewell

#22. A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.

Robert Aris Willmott

#23. The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

Jim Dine

#24. One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.

Joseph Henshaw

#25. There is a saying in the Steel Ministry," Yomen finally said. " 'Sit down to dine with evil, and you will ingest it with your meal.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.

Michael Mina

#27. A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day ... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.

Oliver Evans

#28. I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

Rufus Sewell

#29. Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

Horace

#30. I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

Daniel Boulud

#31. I was going to dine at the television company's expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there's always a price.

V.T. Davy

#32. We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments.
Every human act - no matter how large or how small - is a direct expression of
a man's personality, and bears the inevitable impress of his nature.

S. S. Van Dine

#33. We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.

Robert Burns

#34. The way you treat your food on your plate is a reflection of the way you treat people in your life. Learning how to dine teaches you not just how to eat but how to treat people.

Rajiv Talreja

#35. I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

Stephen King

#36. Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.

S. S. Van Dine

#37. I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.

Harold Ford Jr.

#38. If you can sell yourself as someone who knows how Washington works, someone who has these relationships, that's a very marketable commodity. If you're seen as someone who knows how this town works, someone who is a usual suspect in this town, you can dine out for years - that's why no one leaves.

Mark Leibovich

#39. But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons.

S. S. Van Dine

#40. I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

Jim Dine

#41. The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Winston Churchill

#42. My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally,

Jim Dine

#43. Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.

Jim Dine

#44. My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

Karen McDougal

#45. I have promised to dine at White's, but it is only with an old friend, so I can send him a wire to say that I am ill, or that I am prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement. I think that would be a rather nice excuse: it would have all the surprise of candour.

Oscar Wilde

#46. Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?

Peter Frampton

#47. In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.

M.F.K. Fisher