Dinner Sayings and Dinner Quotes (2024)

A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.Laurie David

Dinner is the principal act of the day that can only be carried out in a worthy manner by people of wit and humor; for it is not sufficient just to eat at dinner. One has to talk with a calm and discreet gaiety. The conversation must sparkle like the rubies in the entremets wines, it must be delightfully suave with the sweetmeats of the dessert, and become very profound with the coffee.Alexandre Dumas

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.Oscar Wilde

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.Mason Cooley

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.Samuel Johnson

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.Julia Child

Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.Carmen Electra

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

But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice at the closing of the day. I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.George Saintsbury

Dinners are given mostly in the middle classes by way of revenge.William Makepeace Thackeray

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.Art Buchwald

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.Judith Martin

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.Laurie David

Dinners are defined as the ultimate act of communion; men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.Thomas Carlyle

At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, time to feed the cat, as if it were their idea.Lilian Jackson Braun

Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.Kris Carr

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.Laurie Colwin

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.Anonymous

Everything on our dinner table-the meat, cheese, salad, bread, and soft drink-requires carbon dioxide to be there. For those of you who believe that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, we have a special diet: water and salt!Joanne Nova

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.Nadia Giosia

Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.Michael Dorris

Drinks are for strangers, acquaintances, workmen, and family. Meals are for family, close friends, honored guests. Thegrand operator of the system is the line between intimacy and distance.Mary Douglas

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Joint meals won't end all domestic squabbles, but sitting together--even the night after a fight--gives kids practice talking through disagreements, forgiving and forgetting, and seeing the world as a bit more complex than right and wrong.Laurie David

It can be tough for busy families to organize dinners together but it takes intention and attention and thousands of intimate moments that you share together.Laurie David

The family dinner is like a declaration of dependence, poised to lead a mealtime revolution! By leading us away from faster food and meals alone, the ancient custom it is reviving will help you create some of your family's most precious memories!Laurie Davidson

The power of nightly dinners comes from more than the food. It's an excuse to bring your family together.Anne Fishel

The real power of dinners comes from the particular quality of conversation around the dinner table.Anne Fishel

Dinner conversation, rich in nutrients, is a place to seed important values. Anne Fishel

Families need to make a commitment to setting aside time for dinners. You get to nourish your family, prevent a host of problems and provide pleasure and delight that they can build on for the rest of their lives.Anne Fishel

You can use dinner as a time for your children to explore their connections to families from different cultures, and to their place in the web of living things.Anne Fishel

Families tell us that they come to the table for the food, but they linger and keep coming back if they have fun and good conversation during their time together.Lynn Barendsen

Dinners with the family have been found to be a more powerful deterrent against high-risk adolescent behaviors than church attendance or getting good grades.Lynn Barendsen

The real power of family dinner is that it provides a reliable time for parents and kids to connect with one another.Lynn Barendsen

To eat dinner together is to convene, to talk and learn about one another.Lynn Barendsen

Remember that the food is secondary, the human interaction and connection are paramount. That's family dinner.Lynn Barendsen

The family dinner table is a place of communication and fellowship, and a means of reconnecting with those we care about the most.Leanne Ely

One day, you will look back wistfully, actually missing the chaos of trying to get everyone to the table for dinner while the meal was still hot!Leanne Ely

The time you invest in eating dinner together around the table each night lasts a lifetime.Norah Pritchard

Family dinner doesn't have to be home-cooked, and it doesn't haver to be the last meal of the day--it just has to happen together.Laurie David

I don't think there is one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.Ruth Reichi

The feelings that arose from our meals together filled my life with a sense of love and comfort that are still felt around my own dinner table today.Norah Pritchard

The conversations around the dinner table are what linger in your mind more than anything else.Norah Pritchard

At our core we all know family dinners are a good idea. Maybe it's the memory of a meal decades ago. Strong memories and emotions are good reason to eat together.Sarah Waldman

Winter dinners do so much. They warm us up physically, from the snow and wind, and mentally, from the idea of five months of snow and wind.Sarah Waldman

I think feeding that deeper hunger and serving the world start with what your serve for dinner.Ellen Kanner

Whatever happened during the day, you could always count on the dinner table to be a place to share experiences, dream about the future, talk over memories, and connect with people you love.Curtis Stone

The sad part is that somehow in the evolution of today's modern society, dinner has become a choice, not a priority.Sandi Richard

I'm telling you, 'Dinner' is bigger than food!Sandi Richard

What you do when you walk in the door at dinner time does matter.Sandi Richard

Not only food were delicious, dinner table time also stimulated meaningful memories. Enjoy and treasure family time during meals. Everyone will be happy and share how it feels.The Epelbaum Sisters