Dinner Guest Quotes

#1. As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. Stop looking as if you'd like to toss me from the window. Give me a hug, and go on to your dinner guest.

Karen Hawkins

#3. Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

Fran Lebowitz

#4. My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.
But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

Alison Bechdel

#5. Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

A.C. Grayling

#6. An ideal first date should involve things like a candle-lit dinner, soft music, and a binary anal defibrillator, with a guest appearance by Renaldo.

Jarod Kintz

#7. A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.

Damon Runyon

#8. - sit down and take dinner with us - a guest that is safe from repeating his visit, can generally be made welcome ...

Emily Bronte

#9. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

Robert Genn

#10. When I say I want to possess a woman for a day, maybe a whole weekend, it's like I'm inviting her to a dinner party. I'm making exactly the food I want, serving the drinks I like, planning everything. But she's the guest. Just because I'm in charge doesn't mean I won't serve her a damn good meal.

Cara McKenna

#11. A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

Arthur Bloch

#12. The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.

Pia Zadora

#13. Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Nelson Mandela

#14. Life is like an 6-slice apple pie at a 12-guest dinner banquet. If you just sit back and wait for it to come to you, chances are, you're going to miss dessert.

Donald L. Hicks

#15. I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

Marc Almond

#16. Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

Don DeLillo

#17. My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#18. Even when I lived in Chicago and I didn't have any family there, I would just go like I would be a guest and have dinner with a bunch of friends and do potluck or something. So I think that's it, just finding people that you love that love you and hang out with them.

Kate Walsh

#19. from our dinner guests. I almost blanched just thinking the word guest.

Melissa Haag

#20. One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

Myrtle Reed

#21. I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

Glenn Beck

#22. There's no image we can't improve.

Dennis Rodman

#23. Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

Letitia Baldrige

#24. So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.

Brian Tracy

#25. Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

Ted Allen

#26. When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

Guy Verhofstadt

#27. The best place to begin is always with gratitude.

Danielle LaPorte

#28. A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'

Sophy Burnham

#29. My mouth blooms like a cut.

Anne Sexton

#30. I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

Lucy Punch

#31. Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people," said Paul gravely. "Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams.

L.M. Montgomery