Quotes About Dinner Alone

#1. Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Laurie Colwin

#2. Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

Charles Lamb

#3. For God's sake, man!" Frederick Carlyle bellowed across the room. "At least wait until you're alone before you kiss her, if you please! Remember, her family is watching you, and we haven't had our dinner yet!

Stephanie Burgis

#4. After five years of marriage their idea of a really pleasant evening was to be at home, alone, help each other make a good dinner and then sit for a long time and eat and drink and talk.

Maj Sjowall

#5. No, thank you." Isis turned back to Mercer. "You should discuss this with him. He'll be at dinner, but I'd suggest bringing it up after, when you can catch him alone. You don't want a repeat of this morning.

Nick Thacker

#6. Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful.

Irving Stone

#7. This last year ... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected ... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.

Karen Kingsbury

#8. You're actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird ... and just frickin' fine. No bullet holes, no scars, no contusions.
You keep looking at me like that and you'd better buy me dinner afterward.

J.R. Ward

#10. He went up to his room after dinner in order to be alone with his soul: and at every step his soul seemed to sigh: at every step his soul mounted with his feet, sighing in the ascent, through a region of viscid gloom.

James Joyce

#11. And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss.

Libba Bray

#12. Dinner was a lonely affair. Funny how you could be surrounded by your family, your blood, and yet feel totally alone. Even with the sun shining on the sparkling shores of English Bay and Josh at my side, I felt like I was invisible, and in a dark, dark place.

Karina Halle

#13. The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party, however unpretentious, and that day had now arrived for Rupert Stonebird.

Barbara Pym

#14. The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.

Arthur Laffer

#15. The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Peter Drucker

#16. 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

#17. but what his family most resented, he reflected, was his wish for privacy. To dine alone, or to sit alone after dinner, was flat rebellion, to be fought with every weapon of underhand stealth or of open appeal.

Virginia Woolf

#18. In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.

David Beckham

#19. I don't like going to dinner by myself; I'll call for delivery before I do that. It's awkward if you're at a table all alone. I'm sure nobody even notices, but there's something about it.

Max Thieriot

#20. Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

Ernest Hemingway,

#21. Why go to so much trouble when Cranberry Juice, Chicken Broth, and Vodka tastes just like Thanksgiving Dinner, and you can enjoy it alone.

Ray Palla

#22. Social ties are the cheapest medicine we have.

Shelley E. Taylor

#23. An especially good way to gain weight is to have dinner with other people.11 On average, those who eat with one other person eat about 35 percent more than they do when they are alone; members of a group of four eat about 75 percent more; those in groups of seven or more eat 96 percent more.*

Richard H. Thaler

#24. When one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

Myrtle Reed

#25. I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

Edwidge Danticat