Top 35 Late Dinner Quotes
#1. Now I'm going out to dinner with my parents."
"Your parents?"
"Yeah. They really do exist."
"It's eight-thirty."
"Yeah, well if you're rich and pretentious you're supposed to eat late. It's one of the rules."
"Doesn't that become tiresome?"
"Inordinately.
Todd Young
#2. I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."
Robert Orben
#3. I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.
Prince
#4. Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.
Mike Nichols
#6. The citizens have "the extraordinary and exhausting practice of sitting down to dinner at any time between 10m and 11 p.m. I found it challenging to stay animated and conversational when my normal bedtime was usually about the time that the first course was being cleared".
Tony Leon
#7. If a battle can not be won do not fight it.
Sun Tzu
#8. Your father ... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.
Susan Cooper
#9. Serafina was late for dinner because her emotional robots had been having a nervous breakdown.
Charlie Jane Anders
#10. Understand that to achieve success in your efforts, you must try to be reliable and on time for everything -your job, dinner parties, doctor appointments- everything.
Dianna DeLonzor
#11. When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
Jessica Tandy
#12. When a man only rings you late at night, when he only wants to see you late at night, when he doesn't take you out for dinner, or introduce you to his friends, or spend any time or attention on you, then this is not a relationship. This is sex.
Jane Green
#13. A skilled observer might notice there was something his gaze avoided. The same way you avoid meeting the eye of an old lover at a formal dinner, or that of an old enemy sitting across the room in a crowded alehouse late at night.
Patrick Rothfuss
#14. If a clock represented a pie chart, then I just ate a slice of apple pie so large it represents 33 minutes. That means I'm three minutes late for dinner!
Jarod Kintz
#15. It is true love because when he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the middle of the street, I always hope he's dead.
Judith Viorst
#16. Luncher is a combo of lunch and dinner. Too late for lunch, but too early for dinner. Trademark pending.
Gena Showalter
#17. It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
Georgette Heyer
#18. I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages.
Joan Didion
#19. What would it be like to make it so late into life before trouble hit? To always have someone on the front porch, calling you to dinner? The husband doesn't have even a touch of this raised-by-wolvesness.
Jenny Offill
#20. The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life.
John P. Schuster
#22. The awful thing is we don't respect each other.
Jane Goodall
#23. I'm not a late-night person. After 10 P.M., I'm falling asleep. If I'm out at that time, I'll be the one falling asleep at dinner.
Blake Mycoskie
#24. On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.
Ridley Scott
#25. It's hard to tell whether or
not hell's flames are getting
closer
Cory Basil
#26. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'
I should think so - in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn't worth it. In my family, you never knew when dinner was going to be. It could be at 7, or it could be at 10.
Ethel Kennedy
#28. Where's Mom? I can't wait to tell her all about this." "She's going to be late. An appointment, I think." "Again?" Jessica pouted. "That makes three nights in a row! I thought mothers were supposed to stay home and fix dinner once in a while!
Francine Pascal
#29. Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
Charles Caleb Colton
#30. When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
Judith Viorst
#31. Normally I don't approve of children staying up late,' he said finally, 'unless they are reading a very good book, seeing a wonderful movie, or attending a dinner party with fascinating guests.
Lemony Snicket
#32. We don't want any adventures here, thank you! ... Make you late for dinner!" Bilbo Baggins "The Hobbit
JRR Tollien
#33. I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.
Lorenz Hart
#34. The quickest way to exacerbate a dinner with my parents was being late for dinner with my parents. Well, other than bringing zombies to dinner. Because who kept brains in the fridge?
Chloe Neill
#35. There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.
Marcus Tullius Cicero