Dining Quotes

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.

You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.

Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.

Michelin Star? I’d rather chew a French rubber tyre.

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again.

Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Permitting negative beliefs to seek shelter in your mind is like dining day in and out with your worst enemies.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.