- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dinner Party Quotes
Lines about hosting, cooking, and the small dramas of a shared table.
These quotes cover the dinner party from a few sides: choosing a central dish, getting a child involved in prep work, and the odd social discomfort of hearing your own anecdote retold by someone else. See Dinner quotes for more food-focused lines.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could throw a dinner party for anyone, I'd invite Lena Dunham, Dave Chappelle, and Gena Rowlands.
- Formal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love kids, but I have to be honest: I am that person at a dinner party who's a little relieved when the kids go to bed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to Paris at 16, I held a dinner party in my first apartment and served only red wine, French fries, and mashed potatoes. Unable to cook, I relied on people taking me out.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020