Quotes About Invitation To Dinner

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

Jules Renard

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

Joe DiMaggio

#5. Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment.

J.R. Rim

#6. 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

#7. There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

Brandon Thomas

#8. 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

#9. If you miss the moment, you miss your life.

John Daido Loori

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

Ward McAllister

#11. To do something is in every man's power.

Samuel Johnson

#12. 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

#13. If you love something, let it go. If it does not come back it was not yours to began with.

Anna Napper

#14. People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

Marcel Proust

#15. I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Paulo Coelho

#16. Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

William Hamilton Maxwell

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

Jules Renard

#18. I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done anything like that in my life. I was not brought up with the blues or anything like that, and I really, really enjoyed it.

Robert Palmer

#19. 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

#20. I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

Stephen Rea

#21. 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

#22. I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

Magic Johnson

#23. Where did you grow up?"
He wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Who says I've grown up?

Dana Marton