Dinner Invitation Sayings

#1. After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

Peter Higgs

#2. Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state of one's larder was hardly the way to respond to an invitation to dinner.

Barbara Pym

#3. Can I ask who you are, sir?"
"Yeah, I expect so," said Strike, walking past him and ringing the doorbell. Anstis's dinner invitation notwithstanding, he was not feeling sympathetic to the police just now. "Should be just about within your capabilities.

Robert Galbraith

#4. You have to keep looking on the bright, because you'll never find anything in the dark.

Zack W. Van

#5. These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

Libba Bray

#6. The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

#7. There are times when I think of switching to narcotics. There, at least you can rely on a heroin pusher to push heroin.

Umberto Eco

#8. Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Barack Obama

#9. The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

#10. There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

William Morris

#11. One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.

Edouard De Pomiane

#12. A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

Ward McAllister

#13. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

Donald Miller

#14. Since that era the question "Do you have any food restrictions?" has become a part of the etiquette of a dinner invitation, and participants at conference dinners can now tick a box that will replace a plate of rubber chicken with a plate of sodden eggplant.

Steven Pinker

#15. She never stumbles,
she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all.

Bob Dylan

#16. Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

Marcel Proust

#17. A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first

Louis L'Amour

#18. Walking in heels while wearing a ball gown was, as it turned out, more difficult than finagling an invitation to a state dinner.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#19. Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

Rose Kennedy

#20. Professor Branestawm

Norman Hunter

#21. When I see my future, I see you...

Swapna Rajput

#22. Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Jonathan Miller