Quotes about dinner

din·ner noun
1 a : the principal meal of the day b : a formal feast or banquet
2 : TABLE D'hote
3 : the food prepared for a dinner (eat your dinner)
4 : a packaged meal usually for quick preparation Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon the table than when his wife talks Greek." -Samuel Johnson

"When my mother had to get dinner for eight she'd just make enough for sixteen and only serve half." -Gracie Allen

"I do not think that anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast." -George Saintsbury

"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it." -Proverbs. 15:17

"Music with dinner in an insult both to the cook and the violonist." -G. K. Chesterton

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely." -Somerset Maugham

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody." -Samuel Pepys

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