Quotes About Dinner Parties

#1. Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca ...

Daniel Handler

#2. [On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.

Margaret Case Harriman

#3. The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers.

John Gardner

#4. Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour happens to be peculiarly agreeable.

Isabella Bird

#5. I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

Tom Ford

#6. It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

Damian Lewis

#7. I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

Jenny Slate

#8. My whole life has been a very communal experience; growing up in a house full of happy hippies, having dinner parties three days a week, and going to Christiania, I was constantly surrounded by people celebrating community. If you look at the films I've done, they all share that theme.

Thomas Vinterberg

#9. Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.

Frances Trollope

#10. Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

Trinny Woodall

#11. Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#12. You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age ... pretty dull.

Prince Harry

#13. So when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory- or fall quiet at dinner parties- they're not demonstrating a failure or a lack of energy. They're simply doing what they're constitutionally suited for (237).

Susan Cain

#14. I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

Fiona Apple

#15. I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

Morena Baccarin

#16. I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

Ron Silver

#17. There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake up in the morning and immediately think, 'Now what am I doing tonight?' Now I'd be more likely to reach for a book.

Gina Bellman

#18. It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner parties.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

Hugh Hefner

#20. Outside the window, people threw dinner parties.

Olivia Laing

#21. After all, poison is only contagious at dinner parties.

Scott Lynch

#22. Pierre, who knew she was very stupid, sometimes attended, with a strange feeling of perplexity and fear, her evenings and dinner parties, where politics, poetry, and philosophy were discussed. At

Leo Tolstoy

#23. People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession - it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It's not good for the economy.

Peter Hargreaves

#24. I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

Ellen DeGeneres

#25. I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.

Lia Ices

#26. Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

Nigel Slater

#27. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

John Wanamaker

#28. Misery loves company which is ironic because it rarely throws dinner parties.

Dov Davidoff

#29. Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#30. I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#31. Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

Nora Ephron

#32. The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

Carol Grace

#33. Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

Christine Quinn

#34. Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

Sally Quinn

#35. It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

Oscar Wilde

#36. At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

Donald T. Regan

#37. I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.

Peter Dinklage

#38. People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming, but they should be sat next to at dinner parties, not lived with.

Scottie Fitzgerald Smith

#39. One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.

Laura Wasser

#40. 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

#41. Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead ... Each name called up raucous dinner parties and gin-and-tonics on sunny patios, lazy Saturday afternoons at the swim club, station wagons filled with noisy boys in polyester baseball uniforms.

Stewart O'Nan

#42. There are dinner parties ruined by guests, and there are dinner parties ruined by hosts, and then there are dinner parties when everyone contributes to the disaster.

Julie Powell

#43. If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.

Michael Shnayerson

#44. Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Marcel Proust

#45. Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

Boris Johnson

#46. Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

Julie Powell

#47. It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single thing we do is intended to distract us from that reality.

Armistead Maupin

#48. The most unforgettable dinner parties happened when guests said unexpected, and potentially offensive, things. The

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#49. I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.

Shawn Ashmore

#50. The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

#51. Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.

Charles K. Kao

#52. Today, I show you Lake Como even though I don't know fuck all about Lake Como; I do know how to drive a boat. Tonight, no parties, no friends, no nothing. You, me, dinner. Later tonight, just you and me. You with me?"
"I'm with you," I whispered, and I was with him. So with him.

Kristen Ashley

#53. I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.

Tom Stoppard

#54. I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

Gary Oldman

#55. Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

Salman Rushdie

#56. I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

Graydon Carter

#57. As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

Daniel Radcliffe

#58. For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Erma Bombeck

#59. If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.

E.A. Bucchianeri