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Quotes about Dinner

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.
— Madeleine L'Engle
They're a good family...One can tell a great deal around a dinner table...I think the closest we ever come in this naughty world to realizing unity in diversity is around a family table. I felt it at their table, the wholeness of the family unit, freely able to expand to include friends, to include me even through Austin's and my suspicions of each other, and yet each person in that unit complete, individual, unique, valued.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
— Oscar Wilde
To begin with, I hate these new-fangled intermediate meals. Why can't people eat enough at luncheon to last till dinner?
— Edith Wharton
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
— George Eliot
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
— GK Chesterton